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Your Phone: How Often Do You REALLY Use It?
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How often do you use your phone on a typical day? We asked people to give their estimates, and then tracked their usage... the results were surprising and hilarious. Check out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo! http://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedvideo Moment app: https://inthemoment.io/ Sources and more info… http://www.flurry.com/blog/flurry-insights/mobile-television-we-interrupt-broadcast-again#.VL2StGTF_49 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/12/376717870/bored-and-brilliant-a-chall...
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- I use my phone incessantly. - My phone is basically my boredom box.

So anytime I get really bored that's the first thing I go to.

- I'm so attached to my phone it's almost embarrassing.

- It's like I never put it down, ever. - Oh.

- God. - If I had to guess I would say

maybe around 45 minutes a day. - Humidive-ly, if you condense it all together,

an hour-and-a-half? - I think I'm on my phone like

an hour. - Maybe like 13 hours, like a day.

- I feel like I don't check my phone that much. I've always kind of tried to pride myself

on being one of those people. So I would guess I check my phone 30 times a day.

- There's a, like big period of time where I don't look at it.

I just ... What, why?

- I have a feeling I might not like what I find out, but I know I probably am not gonna change.

- I am so scared that I am the problem. I am the person that I hate.

- You know what's weird? My phone is such a big part of my life

and I have no idea how much I use it. - So now I'm home and this is definitely

when I check my phone a lot more. - It's actually kind of embarrassing

how much I've been using my phone. - Okay, so confession time.

I'm at a dinner with friends and the first thing I did was go on my phone

and check my email. - So I'm home from work now

and I'm gonna guess my phone usage is gonna double or triple.

- So I'm checking my Instagram in the shower. - I'm trying to get off my phone

so I can go to bed. - I feel like I check it more compulsively

than I imagine, but maybe for not quite as long. I don't know.

We'll see what happens tomorrow. - I'm really nervous to find out

how much I actually use my phone. - Like I didn't realize how many things

I use my phone for that I didn't really put in my estimate. - I'm terrified of what this will say about me.

- All right, here we go. Ah.

- Oh my God. That's like longer than most movies I watch.

Oh, no. - Whoa, 151 times.

Holy shit. Well, I got business to attend to.

I gotta reply to everybody. - Whoa.

That is not any where near as bad as I thought it would be.

Three hours I'm like totally fine with. - Yeah, this seems right.

This seems right. This isn't mind blowing knowing myself.

- Oh my God, no. No.

Oh, I was completely wrong on like all counts. Oh my God.

- Woo. Okay, 138 pickups to me

that's a lot of checking my phone. That's a lot of just constantly going, huh?

Huh? Huh?

- I was very wrong. I'm really disgusted with myself.

This is horrible. - Is this gonna change your phone habits?

- I don't think so. I don't think so.

- I think it's gonna change what apps I spend time with on my phone.

- I make fun of my friends so much for being on their phone while I'm talking to them.

Now I know clearly I am also one of those people. - For all of my friends who make fun of me

for being on my phone all the time I'm actually fairly average.

- So my phone's gonna be a big part of my life still, but I'm gonna try and use it in a more healthy way.

- It makes me think that maybe I spend way too much time stuck down like this

and it wouldn't kill me to keep my head here more often during the day in my life.