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UK adults 'addicted' to smart phones
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by liamssoft | August 5, 2011 at 02:58 am
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British adults cannot put down their smart phones - they are becoming part of many people's everyday lives
According to a study for telecommunications watchdog Ofcom, research showed that the devices are changing peoples social behavior,. with many Britons welded to their smartphones 24 hours a day and refusing to turn them off in cinemas and theatres,
Research showed that more than a third of adults and a majority of teenagers say they are highly addicted to devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, often referred to as 'CrackBerry' by users for this reason.
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at 03:22 on August 5th, 2011
The addiction to smart phones is akin to driving through life and texting at the same time. Sooner than later, people will hit a wall and be unable to pay their phone bill.
at 03:27 on August 5th, 2011
Yes you see people driving and texting all the time even though if they are caught there is a fine and 3 license points.
at 06:11 on August 5th, 2011
And what if in maintaining their cool in with the social mob they kill someone while texting...the same fine and lost of points?
at 06:21 on August 5th, 2011
at 06:39 on August 5th, 2011
Well, that seems fair. What's that mean? Serve one year and out on mandatory parole? That's a sound public thrashing for taking a life. I sure hope the poor driver got government paid post imprisonment counseling.
at 06:50 on August 5th, 2011
I agree that sentencing for taking a life deliberately or accidentally never seems to add-up to the real cost of loosing a life
at 06:55 on August 5th, 2011
What sentence would you like to see given "thirty-aught-six"?
at 08:05 on August 5th, 2011
I should like the 'victims' who have done the murder to hold the expectation that any sentence will have to be served in full. That they fully understand they can not -through serving any amount of sentence- make up the value of the life they took [though I'd rather that message be carved onto their soul with a very large hammer and a seriously malformed chisel]. That they understand they now owe an emotional and financial debt to the family they just destroyed and if they had any moral values whatsoever they would take up that responsibility. But most of all I should like that it will not be the simple matter of a slap on the wrist and all's forgotten. Poor dear, tisk, tisk. Better have another cup of tea attitude expressed by both general public and public office.
at 21:16 on August 5th, 2011
lol..You guys might be missing something here. Tens of thousands of people are killed in driving and all kinds of accidents in different ways almost everyday across the globe. Deaths by someone actually texting while driving is probably less than one tenth of one percent of that number. Distracted driving is probably a more accurate way of looking at this issue overall. Generally just using a cell phone while driving increases the risk of an accident 4x. In the U.S. more and more states continue to enact cell phone driving laws to combat these risks. In 2009, 5,474 people were killed in the U.S. because of accidents that involved distracted driving. 995 involved reports of a cell phone as a factor. But remember this, approx 60 million people die per year worldwide. Approx 2% of that number is from driving accidents.
at 03:42 on August 6th, 2011
traffic accidents are one thing. being under the influence or bloody texting and taking a life is no damn accident. we call it gross negligence manslaughter. the sentencing handed down is hardly worth the courts cost to procecute. the sid bring them to the front door and the barristers are pushing them out the back door as quick as they can with one hand while emptying their purse with the other.