Stanford Students Addicted To Their iPhones

March 02, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Years ago, when the Blackberry started gaining traction among business users, people found themselves using the device so much that the nickname “Crackberry” was invented to describe how addicting the device was. According to a recent survey of 200 Stanford University students, the iPhone is just as addictive as the Blackberry, if not more so. Nearly a third of Stanford students surveyed worried about becoming addicted to their iPhones, while more than a third had heard complaints they were using the devices too much. Read more…

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Is The iPhone Clinically Addictive??

March 01, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The Ivy League brain-trust from Stanford University is trying to tell us something we already know, but with the backing of a formal survey to provide additional credibility. It turns out the iPhone is actually quite “habit forming.”

Nearly one-third of the two-hundred Stanford University undergraduates polled for this survey expressed fears that their iPhone is not only addictive, but that they could already be clinically addicted to their beloved smartphone. Thesurvey, in case you’re wondering, was conducted by a graduate anthropology class in research methods. Read more…

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