According to the Pew research center, 83 percent of American adults now own cell phones and almost three-quarters send and receive text messages. Cellphone owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages a day -- more than 3200 messages per month.
Other research suggests that users check their smart phones about every six and a half minutes, an average of 150 times during a waking day of 16 hours.
I like cell phones because they make people sit still, unaware of their surroundings, perfect models for my sketchbook.
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Previously on GJ:
The Spell of the Cell (2010)
Cell Phone Talk (2007)
Source: Daily Mail, Edutopia.
