25% Of People Would Rather Have A Mobile Phone On Them Than A Credit Card

Sites include T-Mobile.com . Published on August 2nd, 2012. Written by Anthony West.

You’ve probably never heard of ‘mobile phone separation anxiety’ or ‘nomophobia’ but they are real phenomena that are affecting mobile phone users right now.

T-Mobile took a look into how mobile phone use is impacting modern life and found that most people are so glued to their phone that they would rather have it on them than a credit card. A whopping 29% of people would leave their house without cash than leave without their mobile phone.

So addicted are people nowadays to their mobile phones that 11% said they would rather leave the house without wearing pants than leave their cherished mobile phone behind. 63% said without hesitation that they would climb through rubbish to get to a lost mobile device.

2 in 5 Americans would begin to miss their smartphone in less than hour without it and men it seems have a higher tolerance for going without their phones. According to the study, women said they could only go around 7 hours without their mobile phones; men lasted slightly longer at 9 hours.

This real condition called nomophobia is quintessentially a 21^st century and decidedly Western disease. And like most other decidedly Western ailments, it probably won’t go away anytime soon. In fact, it may get worse before it gets better.

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