By James Daniels
October 14th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
What exactly do people spend so much time doing on their phones?
While this might include you, it’s easy to feel as though a lot of time is being spent on smartphones without a clear objective. To be sure that this isn’t a generalization, check through your phone settings the amount of time that you spend looking at your own phone. These breakdowns often come with information on where your time is spent, but that’s not something that can be applied to everyone.
Understanding the most popular uses for smartphones across the board can lead to possibly a better utilization of your own device.
Social Media
People have almost lost the art of conversation – they spend free time on their cell phone.
The most common answer that you’re going to get to this question is social media. People are scrolling through their feeds, messaging their friends or watching videos – all examples of content that is designed to keep people engaged, hence the amount of time spent looking at phones. This content is even embedded within itself – social media streams containing short-form video feeds that are designed to keep users as firmly within the loop as possible.
Much of the time, it’s these off-shoots of the social media platform itself that can keep people engaged. A news story might be shared that generates a lot of discussion. Not only do people follow this link to learn about the story, but then, they go back and read the comments to hear people’s thoughts and maybe even offer their own – it all feeds back in on itself.
Downloaded Games
If a person has some free time to kill they will often take out their cell phone a play a game.
A lot of the time, you might find that what people are doing on their phones is simply killing time. This might be done through scrolling, of course, but it might also be through something more targeted – more intentionally distracting. Games fit the bill, and mobile gaming is at a point where there’s a whole slew of games to choose from.
Browsing your app store can show you just how many different games are available for you to download, but that might not even give you the full picture. Online casinos don’t even need to be downloaded to be accessed, providing an even wider array.
Business and Investing
Of course, when there’s money to be made, people’s attention is going to be grabbed. As is the case on smartphones, with investment experts and apps available for anyone to access, it’s much easier than ever for people to get into it. This might even be related to the news stories that are shared throughout social media, where people are drawn into stories of how they can make money through their phones and then look into the relevant apps to find out how.
Cells phone are part of an office set up: land line, fax and a cell phone plus a laptop.
Alternatively, it might be that whatever they do for work is accessed through their phone – be it work emails, intranet apps, or their own business platforms that they need to repeatedly pay attention to. While running your own business can lead to a freeing schedule, it can also mean that it’s difficult to ever leave behind.
