Students admit anxiety, love, addiction for iPhones

Salon.com
Graduate students in anthropology at Stanford University conducted a study of students and their relationship with their iPhones, and found some fascinating results. Among the findings was the incredibly personal nature of the students’ relationship with their phones:

But the study finds it’s a complex relationship. While the vast majority felt the phone made them cooler, they also worried that they weren’t using it to its full potential, and that they used it to avoid social interaction. And clearly, they felt it is addicting: “It’s a drug.”

Why do you care? This is an interesting window into younger people and mobile phone use, and it likely applies beyond that age range. I certainly saw myself (definitely not a younger person) in some of the answers. More importantly, if products like the iPhone are this engaging, as news providers, we need to develop products that could be seen as an indispensable part of the experience.