Ninety-one percent of adults own cell phones and apparently spend 91 percent of the time using them for talking or texting, a study on American adults have revealed.
According to MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, today people reach for a phone whenever they are alone, at a stop sign at the checkout line in a supermarket, CBS News reported.
Turkl told the publication that high-speed phone connections have left us more disconnected than ever.
She studied families, who are having breakfast together or attending funerals, and found that people are busy texting.
Turkle’s book, ‘ Alone Together ,’ surveyed hundreds of people about their plugged-in lives and concluded that Americans have lost the art of conversation.
It was found that on an average, 18- to 24-year-olds send and receive a whopping 3,200 text messages a month. (ANI)