Friday, January 13, 2012

Your Smartphone May Be Stressing You Out

Compulsively checking your smartphone may not actually be that smart, British researchers warn. The warning stems from a new study that finds an association between the increasingly popular use of web-enabled cellphones and a rise in stress levels. The reason, researchers say, is that smartphones produce "a relentless need to immediately review and respond to each and every incoming message, alert or bing." The stress gets so bad for some users that they actually begin to feel phantom vibrations, thinking their phone is buzzing when it isn’t.