Smart phone addiction

'Social media monitoring apps targeting programs like Facebook and Instagram are revealing alarming habitual behaviour and extreme levels of smart phone use.

You may not realise it, but you are probably reaching for your smart phone with high frequency.

It just takes a free app to give you the cold, hard statistics.

"If you ask people to report on how often they use their smart phones, they may under report or they may be missing information and consider themselves average users," University of Wollongong technology expert Professor Katina Michael said.'

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