Cellphone study: 60 percent of college students addicted
LOS ANGELES -- The current college generation has pretty much grown up with a cellphone in their hands, and 60 percent of them say they are addicted to the devices.
According to a new survey from Baylor University, female college students spend a staggering 10 hours a day on their cellphones, while male students spend eight hours.
Students use their phones to talk, social network, to listen to music, get their news, arrange their dates, but most of all to text.
Overall, students spend about 95 minutes a day texting. The survey also found many students use their phones while professors are lecturing.
"They have what's almost like a nervous habit where they have to keep checking, almost like the people who keep picking at their cuticles," said Karen North, a USC professor who studies social media.
She says this heavy use will have a major impact on society going forward.
"That is both enhancing our social relationships and it's interfering with our real-time experience with the people who are sitting with us at any given moment," she said.
The study says that women tend to use their phones to focus on building relationships, where men tend to be more interested in entertainment.
