How many hours a week do you use your cell phone and/or text for personal use

I know people who cannot stop phoning and/or texting I just don’t get it. Is your world going to fall apart if you don’t know where someone is every second of every day?

I often don’t use my cell phone for days at a time. I never text.

Maybe two hours a week tops for me.

Excluding work emails, I still use my phone quite a bit. I text the kids, my wife, and sometimes my friends. I use it many of the apps, such as Uber, GPS and Washington State Ferries. I use my phone to check in for my airline fights, and as a camera. When I really bored (waiting for an appointment or something) I play Book Worm.

I don’t like talking on the phone, but I just checked my phone log, and it looks like I use my phone as a phone three or four times a day on average (mostly for work related calls).

I don’t use my phone to know where other people are. With one exception: My wife and I can see each other’s location.

ETA: I didn’t answer the question. I have no idea, but I would guess I’m using the phone in some fashion at least 14 hours per week.

Congratulations?

I use my phone all the time, but rarely for phoning and maybe a couple of times a day for texting. I use it to check the weather, look things up, post on message boards, Facebook, play games, do my banking, check and answer email, do yoga, watch YouTube videos, take, edit and post photos, shop, map things and countless other things I’m probably forgetting right now.

I’m in my mid-forties and this seems completely normal to me.

I rarely “talk” on my phone, but I send/receive maybe a dozen texts a day.

How else would I know when to have dinner ready, or if Mike wants to meet after work for a beer, or where my daughter went hiking, or . . .?

I don’t text and I make maybe 5 or 6 short calls (mostly under a minute or two) per month. Mostly home or to my wife’s cell.

I call my wife every day when I’m about to leave work, just in case she wants me to pick something up on the way home.

Also we text each other regularly, maybe a few times a week, whenever something needs to be communicated quickly but not urgently.

Could we live without this? Sure, but this is so much more convenient.

I rarely actually talk on the phone, but I text/IM/websurf/game on it all the freaking time.

I don’t consider this to be a bad thing. Some people socialize one way, some socialize another. It’s all good. I don’t mind voice phoning, but generally I only use it for urgent or urgent-ish matters, or if I know that the person in question Doesn’t Text.

I mostly just use mine as a pocket watch. But I still have a “dumb” phone and I don’t text much.

I am resisting getting a smartphone because I know the second I get a little pocket computer it will become a new fiddly distraction just like it is for every other human being :). I’ll never be quite as phone-obsessed as younger cohorts, but modern cells are just too useful in everyday life. I’ll give in soon - this year, next. I always run behind the curve of technology, but I’m also not a luddite and eventually get there one way or another.

I got myself the perfect compromise: a tablet which I carry everywhere. I rarely use my phone because I don’t actually want to talk to anyone! I play at being very social and friendly but really I just want everyone to go away. My tablet has all of the games I could want, and I also can talk to my SO with an app on this.

Less than 1 hour per year.

I’d say that I also use my phone (antique flip phone) less than an hour per year. But that doesn’t imply any inherent moral superiority or ability to eschew modern fads – I’m just single, don’t have much of a social circle, and may even have a slight aversion to talking on phones. I would probably spring for a smart phone despite this, just for the data, but I definitely have an aversion towards flinging more of my hard-earned money in a Verizon direction.

Constantly with the texting, internet, or games. Not too much talking.

I do all sorts of stuff on my phone. Judging by my monitoring app, my max is usually 2 hours a day. Probably about 20 minutes of that is spent on texting. Phone calls are a once-a-month sort of occurrence. My world isn’t going to fall apart without it, but it’s going to be less enjoyable. I see no reason to stop doing what I’m doing because other people enjoy themselves differently.

Let’s see. My cell service started June 2 with 1200 minutes, and I have 145 minutes left. That’s 263 minutes per month, which is way more than I expected.

OTOH, I started with 1200 Mb of data and have 1053 left, and that’s under 40 megs a month, which is way less than I expected.

I make one or two calls a week and probably receive about the same amount coming in. I text some, mostly to ask a quick question, get a phone number, info like that. I check Facebook once a day because my sons and families post everything there, including pictures, and I like to see what they are up to. I don’t put anything on my Facebook account. It’s only there to allow me to check on the kids’ accounts.

The feature I use most on my phone is navigation. I had a GPS in the car, but didn’t replace it when it died as the phone does that now.

Hardly at all.

Maybe more than I first thought. Just checked my phone history and I’ve made/received 28 calls in the past week. I do use my gps some, though I don’t think I have in the past 3-4 weeks. I have a bird app that I use a fair amount when I’m birding. If I’ve sent 25 texts in my life it would be surprising.

I use my cell phone maybe for 2-3 calls a month. It may be able to do texts but I really couldn’t tell you.

1 hour or less. If I’m going to spend more than a few minutes talking to someone I’ll use a better phone.

I probably have never spent more than 5 minutes in a month with my phone in my life so average that weekly is seconds which is usually just to check the time.

For personal use? Maybe 30 minutes a week and exclusively with my wife. She and I text on average twice per month, and speak to each other perhaps 5 minutes a day just to check what we are each doing after work.

For business use, I’d say approximately 150 hours a month, between voice (50%), text (15%), and email (35%). Thank goodness for unlimited voice and text plans.