Thursday, August 04, 2016

Six in 10 Britons 'hooked' on smartphone...

The UK is spending more time online than ever with the average person on the internet for 25 hours each week, according to an Ofcom report.

On average Britons spend eight hours and 45 minutes a day using media and communications including TV and the internet - more time than they spend asleep.

To escape the flood of information, 15 million internet users have tried a digital detox - purposefully logging off from connected devices.

Jane Ramble, director of market intelligence at Ofcom, told Sky News: "What we've found in the last few years is that the smartphone has become more and more important to people as the main means of going online and that many people are attached to their phone. Full story...

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