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Anxiety about Checking Emails and Social Media
Q. If you can’t check the following every 15 minutes do you get anxious?
Total |
Aged 18-24 |
Aged 25-34 |
|
Text messages |
9% |
18% |
15% |
Mobile phone calls |
8% |
11% |
16% |
Social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) |
6% |
8% |
13% |
Personal e-mail |
7% |
6% |
15% |
Work email |
8% |
6% |
14% |
Voice mail |
4% |
– |
11% |
9% say they get anxious if they can’t check their text messages every 15 minutes and 8% get anxious about mobile phone calls and work emails.
18% of those aged 18-24 get anxious about checking text messages every 15 minutes but are less concerned about social media and emails.
More than one in ten people aged 25-34 get anxious about checking each media every 15 minutes – especially mobile phone calls (16%), text messages (15%) and personal emails (15%).

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