Mobile Notification Distract Your Focus: Science has progressed a lot in the last few years. The world has become smart. And now smartphones have come into the hands of people from landline phones. But where the world has progressed. At the same time, this progress in the world has also created some unknown problems for the people. Earlier phones were used only for talking to people. But now phones are used for almost all tasks.
But not only for need and convenience, there are many such people in the world. Who spend a lot of time on the phone unnecessarily. Instead of doing the things that are important for them. People using phones do not even realize how much time a single notification from their smartphone wastes in their day. University of California has done research on this. In which many shocking figures have emerged.
One notification wastes 23 minutes
According to research by the University of California, when someone picks up the phone to check a notification. So it takes him 23 minutes to focus on his work again. That is, if you check only four notifications in a day. So almost one and a half hour of your time gets wasted. If you keep your phone close while doing any important work.
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So a notification from the phone diverts your attention from that important work. Your mind loses concentration again and again. You cannot complete a task by focusing on it. Again, a lot of your time is wasted in working with this concentration. If you have thought of any long term goal. And you use the phone continuously. Then it may be very difficult to achieve that goal.
Americans check their phones an average of 352 times a day
According to a study by American company Asurion, Americans check their phones 352 times a day. This study also revealed that 49% people of America are victims of phone addiction. That means they need their phone with them all the time.
Indians are also addicted to using phones
According to the report of World of Statistics, India is at 17th place in the list of smartphone addiction. So America is at 18th place. In this list, China is at first place, Saudi Arabia at second, Malaysia at third, Brazil at fourth and South Korea at fifth.