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DO YOU GET agitated without your phone? If you forget your phone do you panic? You could be one of the 66 per cent of people who suffer from ‘nomophobia’ – as in no-mobile-phone phobia.
According to a study by SecurEnvoy, a company that deals in mobile phone technology, the fear of being apart from your mobile phone is on the rise.
Mobile phone technology has vastly improved over the years, making our phones useful for things other than making phone calls. We can check our bank balance, surf the web and even check the petrol prices at our nearest station.
With improved technology on mobile devices an increase in the numbers suffering from ‘nomophobia’ has followed. A similar study four years ago said 53 per cent of people admitted to a fear of losing their mobile phones, showing that there has been over a 10 per cent increase.
NBC Miami reports that study shows that people check their mobile phones an average of 34 times a day while 75 per cent of people use their phones in the bathroom.
Nomophobia is more likely to effect younger people and women.
Here are the tell tale signs that you may be suffering from nomophobia – obsessively checking your phone, constantly worrying about losing it even when it’s in a safe place, and never turning it off.
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You can turn them off?
I have heard it all now. There is a disorder for everything
Pretty dependent on mine, but it’s pretty sad when you look at a group of people in a pub / restaurant and they’re all tapping away in silence together. I’m good at putting it away when I’m with friends / family
Yep, I am totally addicted to mine…it’s always by my side. If I leave the house without it I go straight back home to pick it up… Bit of a worry really!
Yup that’s me !! I panic tbh thought it was unhealthy alright ! Since I was 16 I have slept with my phone next to me !! Lol it sounds crazy when I think about it! I’m more afraid of misplacing my phone than misplacing my friend lol
So have this.
Yeah i know someone like that.. wakes up in the morning and checks email twitter and FB. dont think she checks for texts of phone calls tho.
Shouldn’t it be called iPhobia?
It was inevitable really. We live in the information age where everything and anything can be done ‘via web’.. I’m addicted to mine, but tbh I think that’s an acceptable lifestyle in this day and age.
don’t give a monkeys about my phone, can easily go a day or two without checking it and i use a 5 year old 2g iphone
Well, it’ll probably be starting school in September so at least you’ll have the day to yourself.
Hahaha @David
This disease was rampant up until the end of the last century. Lead people to vandalise public phones (a phone in a glass box at the side of the street) by ripping off the hand set ( the part of the glass box you had to speak into)
You talking about me?
Haha does NOT apply to me at all! I have the most wonderful phone HTC RHYME and I never Ever know where it is and so never hear it ringing and so do not know who called or texted me. I am so bad that sometimes I see Txts only days later lol
Ah jaysus, couldn’t you have put up a picture of an iPhone. What the hell is that yolk
my worse case was the other night my friend got a tx and straight away all I could think was where is my phone, couldnt c it in my sight so spent ages looking for it for no reason…….is there a helpline for us yet???
duh of course its ok unless you’re from the 1920′s
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