{"id":7461,"date":"2014-04-25T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2014-04-25T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T16:57:18","slug":"this-is-what-the-world-is-coming-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/this-is-what-the-world-is-coming-to\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What the World is Coming to"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed the number of people who are always looking at or playing with their smart phones? Our youth are addicted, I tells ya! Many times I have been in restaurants and seen families – sitting at the same table with mom, dad, son and daughter all staring at their smart phones without saying a word to each other. Now I don’t want to assume things, but I’m going to assume they were not texting each other. And it’s only getting worse.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, I often heard the phrase: “What is this world coming to?” with reference of course to me and my generation. Well maybe this is what the world is coming too. A planet of interconnected zombies…<\/p>\n

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12.5% Of the Total Mobile Population Are Mobile Addicts, Says Flurry !<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n
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Mobile addicts are typically referred to as \u2018zombies<\/a>\u2019 by the media, because of their uncanny ability to stare at their devices, for long periods of time. The true definition of a mobile addict was defined\u00a0by\u00a0mobile analytics firm Flurry<\/a>, which obtained the data from 500,000 apps across 1.4 billion devices as of March 2014. According to Flurry, a mobile addict is a consumer, who checks his apps at least 60 times a day. This means, that on an average of 15 active hours a day, a user is checking his apps at least once every 15 minutes. The average mobile user launches his apps just 10 times a day, and this segment of users is still the largest among all mobile users, for now.<\/p>\n

The Number Of Mobile Addicts Increased By 123% \u00a0In Just One year<\/h2>\n

The statistics are all the more worrying, because the segment comprising mobile addicts is growing the fastest. In March 2014, \u00a0the number of mobile addicts was 176 million, leapfrogging from 79 million during the same month last year. This is almost 12.5% of smartphone users on the Flurry platform, and growing as the fastest, registering 123% growth in only one year. 784 million mobile users or 56% were classified as regular users, or those who check their apps less than 16 times a day. This is the slowest growing category, with just a 23% increase in one year. Users who check their apps between 16 and 60 times a day, are branded as super-users, and they constituting 440 million, or 31% of users, a 55% increase from March 2013. With the\u00a0number of smartphone users<\/a>\u00a0set to increase to 2 billion by the end of 2015, and the world of apps continuously expanding, the number of mobile addicts will continue to grow.\u00a0In 2014, in the U.S. alone, consumers\u00a0spent an average 2 hours 19 minutes a day<\/a>, browsing through mobile apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: DazeInfo\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed the number of people who are always looking at or playing with their smart phones? Our youth are addicted, I tells ya! Many times I have been in restaurants and seen families – sitting at the same table with mom, dad, son and daughter all staring at their smart phones without saying a word\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}