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In France, we have 2,617 interactions (on average) with our smartphone per day. 85% of us use it in the company of loved ones, and even 41% in the middle of the night. Compulsive uses that look more and more like addictions.
Attention economy
In his work The quest for digital sobriety (Ed. Actes Sud), Frédéric Bordage describes this “individual physiological addiction maintained by content providers and social networks”. The economy of the 21st century is the center of attention. as early as 2004, Patrick Le Lay, then CEO of TF1, explained that it was selling “available human brain time” to its advertisers. If the phrase was controversial, it heralded the age of social media pretty well, revolving around apps designed to occupy us as much time as possible… and sell us products. But even outside of these networks, always having our smartphone handy makes us 100% available for enquiries…
Source: Le Figaro
