{"id":298919,"date":"2026-02-15T05:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298919\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:53:28","slug":"my-phone-is-like-an-extra-limb-irish-people-on-the-real-amount-of-time-they-spend-scrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298919\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My phone is like an extra limb\u2019 \u2013 Irish people on the real amount of time they spend scrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A recent poll revealed most people admit being addicted to their smartphone. Sarah Caden talked to some ordinary users about the impacts, both good and bad\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770536049_415_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Me and my phone: As more and more of us admit to being addicted, seven Irish people describe their day-to-day smartphone use                   <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last month, while promoting his latest film The Rip for Netflix, Matt Damon highlighted a new issue for filmmakers, described as \u201csecond screen\u201d. When making a film for a streaming service rather than a cinema, directors can expect the at-home viewer to be easily distracted by their phone, so they need to be sure to repeatedly hammer home the key plot points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This \u201csecond-screen\u201d behaviour is something many of us can relate to. The TV screen content is dragging, or you can\u2019t remember where you know that actor from, so you reach for the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent poll revealed most people admit being addicted to their smartphone. Sarah Caden talked to some ordinary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[823,1711,61,542,60,98032,202,42829,80,6116],"class_list":{"0":"post-298919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-facebook","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-instagram","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-matt-damon","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-sarah-caden","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-tiktok"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}