Pew Research Uncovers What We Use Our Phones

Since in these times about 35 percent of Americans own smartphones, technology has begun pouring in fast and furious regarding specifically what we use our phones for the most; aside from phone calls, in other words.

A new study by the Pew Innovation Center's Internet & American Life Project has revealed that cell phones – and particularly smart phones – have changed the way we interact with the world. During those of us who grew up and even completed some part of our adulthood without the benefit of cell phones, just being able to make calls near anytime and anywhere is however pretty amazing.

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But making phone calls isn't what cell phones and smart phones are all about anymore. So what are we to tell the truth doing with our phones?

Said the study's authors, "Cell phones can help prevent unwanted personal interactions – 13 percent of cell owners pretended to be using their phone in order to avoid interacting with the people around them."

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When you're not using your cell phone to dodge that weird former classmate you run into at the supermarket now and at the time or that guy from accounting who always wants to tell you about how much weight he has lost and how great he feels on his new healthful raw food diet, what else do we use our cell phones for – aside from the or rather obvious making of phone calls?

And when all is said and done, during we love our phones, many of us need a break from them. In the 30 days preceding the interviews for the study, 29 percent of us reported that we had turned off our phones for a time just to get some peace and quiet.