More than forty percent of the country’s residents check phone notifications every one to two hours. A third say they pick up their device every three to four hours, and 14% access their gadgets only two to three times daily. Ten percent cannot part with their phones even for a minute. These findings come from a study conducted by Yandex Vzglyad and Paverbanks MTS Yurent, with results reviewed by socialbites.ca.
Forty-three percent of Russians express worry when Internet access is unavailable, while a majority of those surveyed feel this way. Yet 12% report they can live comfortably without online connectivity.
At the same time, forty percent of respondents indicate that average screen time still surpasses eight hours a day. In essence, many users spend most of their waking hours on their phones. Twenty-nine percent spend between four and seven hours, two percent log in for one to three hours, and ten percent report less than an hour on their devices.
Social networks clearly capture attention. More than seventy percent of respondents use apps daily. The remaining participants diverge: fourteen percent rarely go online, ten percent only once a week, and five percent never use them.
Only fifteen percent of Russians are willing to quit the Internet entirely. Thirty-seven percent want to reduce time spent in the virtual world. Yet the majority, totaling forty-one percent, are satisfied with their current habits and do not seek to cut back in front of screens.
Only twelve percent actively try to manage the time spent on social networks. The rest either avoid tracking hours altogether, at twenty-nine percent, often succeed, at twenty-six percent, or fail consistently, at thirty-three percent. As a result, mobile devices and social platforms have become an integral part of daily life in the country, with life seeming unthinkable without them.
Earlier findings also showed that more than half of Russians play video games every day.
(Citation: Yandex Vzglyad, Paverbanks MTS Yurent; reviewed by socialbites.ca)