Are you addicted to your phone? 你是不是玩手机上瘾了？_BBC

Are you addicted to your phone? 你是不是玩手机上瘾了？

随身英语 Are you addicted to your phone? 你是不是玩手机上瘾了？

Play audio file 你每天会查看几次手机？是三次，二十次，还是八十次？本期《随身英语》和你探讨手机是如何改变人与人之间的交流方式。

课文内容词汇: mobile phone 手机

How often do you check your phone? According to a study led by Nottingham Trent University in Britain, the average person looks at their device 85 times a day, browsing the internet or using apps. Updating their status on social media platforms also made people reach for their electronic companion frequently.

Even the study's participants thought that was a lot: this figure is twice as often as they thought they did. Our phones might be shaping our behaviour more than we realise, and changing the way we interact with people right next to us. Do you actually look at your surroundings more than at your phone? Is it rude to check your phone when someone is talking to you?

Sherry Turkle interviewed hundreds of college students about this. She's a clinical psychologist and a professor of social studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They talked about something they called 'the rule of three'.

The rule has to do with being considerate to others in spite of the allure of the little flat box. Turkle explains: "If you go to dinner with friends, you don't want to look down at your phone until you see that three people are looking up in the conversation. So there's a new etiquette where you don't look down unless three people are looking up in order to keep a little conversation alive."