{"id":113276,"date":"2022-06-22T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113276"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:03:50","slug":"gallup-americans-have-close-but-wary-bond-with-their-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113276","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Americans Have Close but Wary Bond With Their Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of U.S. adults saying they use their smartphone &#8220;too much&#8221; has increased markedly in recent years, rising from 39% when Gallup last asked this in 2015 to 58% today.<\/p>\n<p>This sentiment was strongly age-contingent in 2015 and remains so now; however, all age groups have become more likely to express this concern. Also, this belief is pervasive not only among 20-somethings; smartphone users aged 30 to 49 (74%) are nearly as likely as those 18 to 29 (81%) to say they are on their phone too much. This contrasts with 47% of those 50 to 64 and 30% of those 65 and older.<\/p>\n<p>As in 2015, there is little difference by gender in whether adults think they overuse their smartphone, with 60% of women and 56% of men now saying this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/393785\/americans-close-wary-bond-smartphone.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans Have Close but Wary Bond With Their Smartphone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LCK7owJemU\">https:\/\/t.co\/LCK7owJemU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James F. McGrath (@ReligionProf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligionProf\/status\/1539378884835155969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of U.S. adults saying they use their smartphone &#8220;too much&#8221; has increased markedly in recent years, rising from 39% when Gallup last asked this in 2015 to 58% today. This sentiment was strongly age-contingent in 2015 and remains<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113276\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113279,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113276\/revisions\/113279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}