Digital Addiction

Our Digital Addiction: 727 Hours Surfing, 27 Phoning and 972 Texts [Voices] — By Richard Wray, Communications Editor, The Guardian In the heyday of rock music, no stadium gig was complete without a slow number that prompted the crowd to hold aloft their cigarette lighters to create hundreds of flickering points of light. Now the same effect is created by hundreds of people holding up their mobile phones as the audience takes photo after photo to prove they were there. This is most likely to occur in the UK as the British use their mobile phone as a camera more than anyone else. They are also among the world’s fastest adopters of social... [Tags: adopters, audience, bebo, cigarette lighters, crowd]

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Our digital addiction: 727 hours surfing, 27 phoning and 972 texts — In the heyday of rock music, no stadium gig was complete without a slow number that prompted the crowd to hold aloft their cigarette lighters to create hundreds of flickering points of light. Now the same effect is created by hundreds of people holding up their mobile phones as the audience takes photo after photo to prove they were there.This is most likely to occur in the UK as the British use their mobile phone as a camera more than anyone else. They are also among the world's fastest adopters of social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo, posting... [Tags: adopters, bebo, british consumers, british people, camera phones]

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