{"id":16545,"date":"2017-05-25T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2017-05-26T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T06:11:14","slug":"smartphone-addiction-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/smartphone-addiction-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Addiction Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones have become a key part of modern life, but for many of us, we have reached a point of becoming dependent on them.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, smartphone addiction has increased, with Brazil showing the most time spent on a mobile device &#8211; at almost 5 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/9539\/smartphone-addiction-tightens-its-global-grip\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16546 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chartoftheday_9539_smartphone_addiction_tightens_its_global_grip_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chartoftheday_9539_smartphone_addiction_tightens_its_global_grip_n.jpg 960w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chartoftheday_9539_smartphone_addiction_tightens_its_global_grip_n-300x214.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chartoftheday_9539_smartphone_addiction_tightens_its_global_grip_n-768x547.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/chartoftheday_9539_smartphone_addiction_tightens_its_global_grip_n-269x192.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by Statista&#8217;s Digital Market Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re uncertain as to whether or not you suffer from smartphone addiction, try this quiz:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/articles\/addictions\/smartphone-addiction.htm#quiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones have become a key part of modern life, but for many of us, we have reached a point of becoming dependent on them. Over the years, smartphone addiction has increased, with Brazil showing the most time spent on a mobile device &#8211; at almost 5 hours a day. The survey was conducted by Statista&#8217;s<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/smartphone-addiction-around-the-world\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,166,430,446,496,676,1527,2063],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170522_141042.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16552,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545\/revisions\/16552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}