Students ‘will spend 25 years on their mobiles'
The average person in school, college or university spends five hours and 30 minutes a day on their mobile — and could clock up 25 years of screen time if their habits don't change.
For the 4 per cent of students who spend nine hours or more on the phone every day, that rises to 41 years on the device.
The research was conducted over the first five months of this year by Fluid Focus, which aims to help people manage their screen time. Its figures are based on a waking day of 16 hours and 72 years of smartphone use from age 11 to 83.
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