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Well, according to a recent UK study by Professor Nada Kakabadse of Northampton University, there’s about a 33% (one-third) likelihood that you are indeed addicted to your mobile phone or similar electronic doohickey. Of 360 study participants, about one-third were suggested to be addicted to their mobile gadgets.
The addiction apparently starts off as an expected boost in productivity – hyper-connectivity allows workers to constantly be a few keystrokes away from work-related emails and messages. But, as time goes on, the addiction progresses and manifests itself in gadget-longing anxiety. Often, the addiction can go undetected, and by the time the diagnoses is made, it’s “too late.”
Kakabadse is calling for workplaces to give employees a heads up on how to safely use those dangerous mobile devices.
Anyone else out there get anxious when you don’t have immediate access to your cellphone? Do you sleep with your mobile phone (which can also cause sleep problems, by the way)? Do you wake up in the middle of the night to check messages? Does your mobile phone take priority over your friends and loved ones? Be careful, you might be addicted. I’m surely not addicted…wait, where’s my phone?! Oh, there it is…good.
[Via: BBC]
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
