15 Random stats about your electronic devices

What percentage of cellphone owners have fecal matter on their phone? Read the stats below to learn more.

What are people actually doing with their electronic devices?

Today, kids are toying with smartphones from as young as three years old and senior citizens have become a popular consumer in the mobile device department. We make voice calls, text message, shop, surf the web, and take photos with our phones and tablets, but I bet you didn’t know about these interesting (and slightly shocking) statistics about Americans’ cell phone behavior.

1. 44% of cell phone owners sleep with their phone next to their bed (Pew Research Center)

2. 74% of consumers will only wait 5 seconds for a web page to load on their mobile device before abandoning the site (JBM Consulting)

3. 47% of teens can text with their eyes closed (Harris Interactive)

4. 69% of seniors (ages 65 and older) own a cell phone (Pew Research Center)

5. Seniors still favor traditional TV over other electronics: they average 220 hours and 55 minutes of television viewing per month ( New Media Trend Watch)

6. The average American spends one hour of quality time with a smartphone every day. (Experian Marketing Services)

7. 39% of 2-to-4-year-old children have used a mobile device (Common Sense Media)

8. The average teen sends about 60 text messages a day (Pew Research Center)

9. 29% of cell phone owners say they “can’t imagine living without” their cell phone (Pew Research Center)

10. 75% of Americans bring their cell phones to the bathroom (11Mark)

11. 19% of people have dropped their phones in the toilet (Plaxo)

12. 16% of people’s cell phones have fecal matter on them (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

13. Driving while using a cellphone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37% (Carnegie Mellon)

14. At any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

15. 15% of people admitted to answering their cell phone while being intimate with their partner (Wilson Electronics)