{"id":712005,"date":"2026-06-03T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:29:08","slug":"more-than-a-third-of-uk-phone-use-is-aimless-scrolling-report-suggests-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712005\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a third of UK phone use is aimless scrolling, report suggests &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE03U0pzdzU4Y1pKVnMzQXR6SWYtMjFxa29DSnI5SkdkUXFQMHBWbDhVZTVSeGtFMkpqZTNwaDI1Rnh4cnJIQmVhM0tZejZ3SHFhbE1GaFFEbTRJZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than a third of UK phone use is aimless scrolling, report suggests<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxNaXhxcThMME52SGRhdE1xNmU1SXNJTl9pdWdTY1lwQ0ZRQ1dSNXlKSTlJaC1qNjRkUThzLTFPQWNJdWNKT2pVVl9qczItNG1MYzROSzFIeEFySHVsdzh2V0xvTU5Oc0xQQlR5aVRVWllFNFZqVkhXdWZpaUJRR2xCRDA4Qy1JbmM1ZEdHOFk2Q1d4UHgyZVFvNXBnMzJoSXBQeU9JSkcxbw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You&#8217;re probably on your phone right now &#8211; and there&#8217;s a good chance you don&#8217;t really know why<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxPNWlHMkRBbXp4RklRUm90bFF2WFl4S3liQ0VtX0NYZW1VZWdGbDNRQkItQ3lJN05VZUlWUkxhTk15QW1mTkRlbndrYlRiS2g3VjJwMEdyMUJGZ012bFhkcE1LVzQyV2ZrU3BOZ29HZGxIMXZzU01VNEZYMEh6S2RhSGFNMlg3b3E4NTFadjFydEN5RW01dkg3VFAwTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018I spend 8 hours a day on my phone &#8211; I\u2019m addicted\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxOSWFWdXRsdXhZZlZaZGNnZXVOS2dkemFuQmdEVXp1Ql9aLTl2RHlNM0QwMlV1bXZ3aTlHYmZRTEFUM1daRm9mNkcwVzQtUmVqb29BYWZLZjQ5bVU2NkhZOUUyMm1pQ2k5XzdPMmxXUHZuOWJkY1BLRmcxU0lYakt4dFpIU3lFUkFWaXgwbXdNTHBuTEhzZkR0anFhLTVSYlE4ejZfQ0tCdnQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Average Briton will spend five years doomscrolling \u2014 not just Gen Z<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a third of UK phone use is aimless scrolling, report suggests&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCYou&#8217;re probably on your phone right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-712005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}