How can people stand staring at their phone so long?

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Considering these people are paying a lot of money on contracts for their phones, they feel they have to make the most of them.

I can't remember the exact term but it's when buyers seek to justify their purchases.

That's my theory but then I don't talk to enough people to justify a contract. I do have an iPhone at work and its just an ugly heavy phone.



My personal phone is a Sony for 1/4 the price and fits into a pocket which is something Apple forgot about long ago. now im just trolling lol

I have a smartphone. Mostly use it for looking at the news, work email, some personal email, and tethering to my PC. But but that's about it. Had the phone for a year, and only used about 30min of talk time. But I downloaded about 100GB of data.

I have a phone, but it is kind of an older one. I do not really enjoy how the texting features work on it, so I do not use it a lot. I can understand checking email and news on a phone, maybe often, but I would get irritated if I tried to text on a phone all of the time.

I look at my droid alot & most of the time I'm not doing anything important. I mostly checking email(which I get alot of) signing online petitions or looking up some random stuff. I look at my phone when I go out because it's a distraction. I get bored easily maybe because of ADD. Focusing on my phone helps keep me distracted from some of the things going on around me like people or other things that can overwhelm, annoy or frustrate me. For example looking at my phone when I'm on a crowded bus helps distract me from feeling claustrophobic like I'm going to have a panic attack. It probably also has some OCD elements too. I much rather random people being focused on their phone than trying to talk to other people around them like me

Recently saw a presumed neurotypical couple on their vacation sitting opposite each other just staring at their phones.

Probably texting each other... :/

Sometimes I feel obliged to be staring at a phone when out in public like when I'm standing at a bus stop or somewhere, because it has become very unusual for me to see a young person standing about on her own without staring at a phone in their hand. But I don't want to be a stereotypical youngster.

But when I have got my phone out and someone's talking to me, I feel very awkward not looking at them while they're talking to me, even if the text I am composing is important. But other youngsters don't seem to have any feelings of guilt if I'm talking to them whilst texting on their phone.

I find that quite ironic.

I get the same feeling from time to time. Everywhere I go I see youngsters staring at their phone while walking, waiting somewhere, biking, driving and even while working.

There's this student at work who constantly checks his phone every 15 minutes. He sometimes wonders why he isn't able to work so concentrated. Gee, I wonder why!

Don't get me wrong a mobile phone can be very handy but dang, put it down for once! It seems to be taking over the lives of most youngsters.

This thread just reminded me... I haven't turned my mobile phone on for more than a month... better check to see if I've got any urgent messages.

Yeah their lives do seem to revulve around their phones. My life doesn't. I call people when I am supposed to or have to but I don't care to talk on it. I rathertext but I only have a couple friends. As I said I mostly use mine to distract me or when I need too for something. It was interfearing some when my OCD was worse because I had to check my phone for text & emails every few minutes sometimes. Thanckfullly I found a med that's working well to manage my OCD so my phone use isn't a problem for me.

The 3 places I worked at had a policy that phones were supposed to be off when you were on the clock & not on an offical break. I kept my phone off except at one job when my supervisor was out because we texed sometimes but management was cool about me texting him about work; I kept my phone on silent mode & I keep vibrating off so I mostly looked at it when I was on break or lunch or when I was ibetween task or when we were discussing something important. I didn't like texting on the clock like that because I liked to stay focused on my work. He texted me alot when he was working & I was off to give status updates eveything he was doing(he was kind of needy) but I didn't text him when one was at work & other off unless it was important or I was responding to his.

They are very strict with phones at my work, and yes, most of the workers obey that rule and keep their phones in their bags during work time. There is one girl who is texting on her phone a lot whilst working, and she has been caught many times and told not to use it, but she never listens, although she knows it's wrong.

I find that by keeping my phone locked away in my bag, makes me get on with my work better. When your phone is in your pocket, knowing it is there becomes a distraction, and you think ''oh I will just have a sneaky look at my phone, won't harm anybody'', which it doesn't, but the sneaky looks turn into longer looks, until it becomes a habit that distracts you from your work then gets you into trouble.

I know most of the others at work keep their phones away in their bags because I see them getting their phones out of their bags during coffee-break times, but they don't sit there constantly on their phone throughout the whole coffee-break period. But there are a lot of older people at my work so they don't use their phones as much as youngsters.