44% of The USA Teens Are Checking Their Smartphones for Messages or Notifications as Soon as They Wake Up, 2018 | Pew Research Center
Consumer Behavior | USA
Today’s teens are coming of age in an era when smartphone usage pervades daily life. Thus, one cannot understand teens without grasping how smartphones define the ways they get entertainment, communicate with each other. A majority of teens now have a smartphone. Many declare they could not go more than a single day without using it. Serving multiple purposes beyond communication, it fills hours of their day.
Take a glance at the USA teens smartphone usage:
- 44% of surveyed USA teens reported that they check for messages or notifications as soon as they wake up.
- 18% indicated that they feel that they have to respond to messages from other people immediately.
- 8% mentioned that they lose focus in class because they are checking their cellphone.
A Graph Shows The USA Teens Attitudes, 2018.
Pew Research Center
Market Research
Pew Research Center was a research project founded in 1990 by the Times Mirror newspaper company and called the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press. The project conducted regular polls on politics and major policy issues. Today, Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world.Pew Research Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. The center studies U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and the U.S. social and demographic trends.
