As of 2024, there are approximately 4.88 billion smartphone users worldwide, accounting for about 60.42% of the global population.
The number of smartphones in use globally is around 7.21 billion.
China leads global smartphone ownership with 974.6 million users.
India ranks second with 659 million users.
The United States has 276.14 million smartphone users with an 81.6% penetration rate.
94% of young adults aged 18 to 29 in the US own smartphones.
83% of urban residents in the US own smartphones, compared to 65% in rural areas.
Approximately 132 million people in the US spend 5 to 6 hours daily on their smartphones.
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A very very small group of people have managed in a short time span to get billions of people addicted to a machine that is for the most part, bad for their emotional [and physical for that matter] health.
UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE!!!!
The biggest story of the century, by far.
It is so insane that people have actually lost interest in the strongest of human desires! Hashem gifted us with an act that is the most physically and emotionally satisfying thing a human can do and people are more interested in their phones. Literally. Documented.
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Mussar Haskel - Detox, my beloved friends, detox!!!
The phone causes you to focus outwards. Not using the phone enables one to focus where it matters - inwards. [Not to mention all of the איסורים involved - מראות אסורות, ניבול פה, ביטול זמן, ליצנות, כפירה and the list goes on].
