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35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed
alphadogg writes "Thirty-five percent of Android and iPhone owners in the US use apps such as Facebook on their smartphone before even getting out of bed, according to a survey conducted by telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson. The most popular in-bed activity is accessing social networks. Eighteen percent of users log in while they are still in bed, and the most popular application is Facebook, Ericsson wrote."
... get some.
With a raging hard-on.
look at the weather channel widget on my HTC Inspire. took longer when i had an iphone. and watching TV to find out what the weather is going to be is simply too time consuming
WTF
on the screen of my phone while still in bed basically every week day.
I suspect that's more popular than Facebook...
Lol.. and I log into Slashdot. Like I am doing right now.. I know, I am a sad, sad person.
I can assure you that in my house the most popular in-bed activity is definitely NOT social networks.
When you are sleepy (about to sleep, or just up), doing something non brain intensive like Facebook lets your brain ramp up to the real world with an intermediate step.
For some people its the news, for some its their mail, for some its coffee, and now for some its Facebook
It could be the vibrator app.
How do they know when you're specifically in bed? Sounds kind of alarming actually...
My phone doesn't even come into the bedroom with me. It stays in the living room at night. If it's so deathly important for someone to get a hold of me, I have a door bell.
alarm >> /. >> woot >>drudge >> shower
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
Generally the first thing I do is check the time. Since I'm some kind of hipster apparently I more or less only have my cell phone as a bedside clock. Then after realizing I'm late to be getting up, I immediately notice the four hundred emails and texts that poured in throughout the night, and proceed to go through each and every one before crawling out of bed and facing the harsh reality that is THE COLD TOILET SEAT.
Facebook isn't on that list. I could give two shits less.
How many users is that? I had trouble finding figures for the total number of android users.
Only if the alarm clock on my smart phone counts. I need to have it near me 24/7 (for that one time in 2 years there's a server emergency), so I may as well use it instead of the cheap old alarm clock. Never mind the amusing apologies from my boss when he behind-dials my number again.
I don't usually check the weather forecast until I'm out of the bathroom.
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I use an app to record my personal growth chart... I have to use it in the morning to make sure the measurement is when I'm at my most manly
"The most popular in-bed activity is accessing social networks." Thanks, my wife has hidden my Andriod and she turned it off.
"The most popular in-bed activity is accessing social networks."
Is that what the kids are calling "hooking up" these days?
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These are Americans - how many get out of bed during the day at all? Because that could skew things...
Of course, you gotta tell the CIA and the FBI what you have planned for the day! Duh!
Also, not surprisingly, 72% check Facebook from bed before going to sleep and 20% check Twitter. That's what happens when you keep your smartphone on your nightstand and/or work on your laptop into the wee hours.
35 or 18?
...the last thing you're going to do is pause to check who bought a new pig in farmville.
What age bracket did they survey?
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Turns out there are others who need to get a life...
Why would you need to use mobile apps before you get to the bathroom? I know that's where my mobile app use starts.
iWank!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Technically, pressing snooze on the built-in alarm clock qualifies as "using an app", but luckily its not connected to facebook.
are freakin' retarded. No, I will take that back retards are smarter than these people. These 35% of users really need to self remove themselves from the gene pool as soon as possible.
"The laws of science be a harsh mistress." --Bender
% of people who play Angry Birds while on the loo...
small portable information screens can be used in bed.. I read books on my iPod, sometimes i read in bed. am i supposed to get up before I read something? I would say this is better for mental health than listening to the Morning Zoo, with Hawkeye and the Beej, or turning on a TV to watch Royal Wedding news.
Also use apps on the toilet I know I do.
Applications are supposed to be for productive work on your computer. Facebook is neither productive nor work. Really, it is better called a game.
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http://xkcd.com/490/
I wonder if their survey population included only those who use Facebook via a smart phone and not "all Android and iPhone users".
I'd also like to know what kind of question they used to derive such a conclusion.
"Have you ever..." and "Do you regularly..." are often interchanged in marketing surveys for this very purpose.
Am I the only one who doesn't really use Facebook? I have an account but I never login unless I receive some strange friend request and HAVE to log in to reject it.
I think Facebook is some sort of "I have nothing to do with my time so I go to Facebook to make time pass". I find 24 hours to not be enough for all the important things. Facebook is NOT one of those things. At all.
I think that makes me a weirdo nowadays...
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
The Alarm Clock.
He is talking about mobile apps. Facebook has a mobile app on multiple platforms. Amazingly you have absolutely no authority to make up that definition for the rest of the engilsh speaking world.
HEY! Not getting out of bed is not an american tradition. It's a Russian tradition, centuries old.
The first order of business upon waking up is to pee. The sample group must have all been dehydrated.
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I use my iPhone for an alarm clock, so I guess I'm in that 35%.
The study appears to have missed something fairly crucial and not especially obvious to people over 30 - they differentiate phone calls from "smartphone non-voice usage" at various times of the day, but apparently fail to take into account the fact that, for many young people, their alarm clocks are apps on their phones - I interact with my phone every morning in bed, but it's because it's waking me up, not because I'm checking facebook.
but I am a Luddite. No TV or computer in my bedroom. Not even the iPad invades our space. Though we did talk about putting a TV in the bathroom behind the mirror. That might happen. If anything not having the world show up in our bedroom has made life so much better.
Now I will admit to the cell phones do have cradles in the bedroom.
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I'd guess this # would go up if people counted their alarms as an App. Mine definitely is, as I use a Droid w/ a Doc and a customizer app to reprogram my camera button into a "snooze". Thus, I use an app before I even wake up.
I generally make a point of having the only electricity-using devices in the bedroom be the lights and the alarm clock. (And if my wife didn't require it be a radio alarm clock, I'd make do with an old fashioned wind-up 'hammer-between-two-bells' model.) My phone's charger is in the home office one room over. The phone rings loud enough that it will wake me up; but I don't leave it in the bedroom.
Only caveat - if I'm sick and stuck in bed. Then I'll use the phone in bed.
I occasionally read a book on my iPad in bed at night; but don't use it in the morning before getting out of bed.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
35% of US smartphone users admit to using apps before even getting out of bed. Doctors advise the other 65% that it is "entirely natural" and "nothing to be ashamed of."
The most popular in-bed activity admitted to is accessing "social networks," as respondents called it, doing air-quotes. The most common complaint is that the screen is too small to display photos properly, and that it does not wipe clean sufficiently well. Many were tempted to buy a tablet next.
Smartphone vendors and app writers have tried to capitalise on the bedroom market. Vibrate mode is particularly popular and is thought to be driving the accessories market for protective silicone cases.
"Social networking" (air-quoted) remains important when people first wake up, since most are alone and will forever stay that way. 20 percent do a last "check-in" (also air-quoted) before going to sleep at night.
Sociologists suggest the bedroom "apping" phenomenon will be self-limiting, given the effects on fertility of carrying a microwave transmitter in your pocket all day right next to your gonads.
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I guess whether you call it social networking depends on who and how many people are in bed with you.
I've tried using that and some other sleep-detection systems (currently using a Zeo, which gives a lot more detail about your sleep process.) Having the alarm go off when you're in lighter parts of the sleep cycle is much better than having it go off in deeper parts.
But if you're having lots of grogginess problems in the morning, you might check whether you've got sleep apnea or other sleep problems.
I've got an indoor/outdoor thermometer in the bedroom - it helps to know what the temperatures are like before I get dressed. Sure, I could get fancy and have an app telling me what the temperature is at the office instead of at home, but it's not that necessary.
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Some years ago, one thing people commented about liking about Burning Man was that they were really really offline, middle of nowhere, no phone or Internet, if they had any communications it was walkie-talkies to friends in their camp. You could Be Here Now, because you couldn't really be anywhere else. Even Brad's Phone Booth didn't change that much, because there was just one of it and it stayed in one place and you could stand in line.
Now that people have done really cool stuff with satellites and wifi nets and such, you have to try harder to be offline.
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http://xkcd.com/490/
Technically you can network with just two, but I prefer a well connected grid.
I use my phone to work from bed. I work mostly from home, managing an off-shore team, so my typical day goes something like:
1) Alarm goes off at 08:45.
2) Check to see if there are any emails that can't wait.
3) If 'yes', and they can't be answered with a quick one-liner, grudging haul my carcass out of bed to crank up the kettle and the laptop.
4) Otherwise - i.e. 90% of the time - go back to sleep for another half-hour. Go to (2) and repeat until I need to do some work, or I need a piss, or lunch beckons.
It works very well. If anything urgent happens I'll deal with it, otherwise I get to snooze; and to hell and back with anyone who doesn't appreciate the joy of snoozing, doubly so when you're getting paid for it. Now and again, if my wife wakes me up while she's getting ready for work, I'll send out an email in the early morning to give the impression (apparently successfully) that I'm primed and raring to go at 07:00, and of course waking up (for the first time) at 08:45 means that I can send more emails in the dead of night. So my colleagues believe that I work for 18 hours a day, I get lots of quality bed time, and everybody wins!
I'm reading /. on my well-known brand ?phone, at 7:40 am naturally... in bed.
Either I'm doing something very right, or very wrong.
I let you decide ;)
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Definitely got the better deal in that bargain.
I can think of at least 2 better things to do in bed...
PS. capcha was "slothful"