Kids spend six months looking at their phone over their childhood
By the age of 14 the average child will have sent more than 35,000 texts, 30,000 WhatsApp messages and racked up more than three solid weeks of video chat, a new study has revealed. The modern youngster will also have spent the equivalent of six months looking at their phone during that period, averaging 135 minutes’ use a day. The survey of 1,000 kids aged 8-14 and their parents, also found young people spend over an hour a day browsing social media sites like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram It also emerged they expect to receive a reply to a message within 15 minutes.