According to a new study, using smartphones for responding to messages, looking at social media notifications, reading news or replying to office emails in middle of the night disrupts sleep patterns.
The study “Global Mobile Consumer Survey 2016” conducted by global consultancy firm Deloitte revealed that almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds check their phones in the middle of the night.
“If users do not wake up to check their texts, they take time to scroll through their notifications right before bed. Ten per cent of users also like to check their smartphone first thing in the morning,” the study said.
Less than a quarter of smartphone users are unplugging at least an hour before they go to sleep.
“Nearly 27 per cent of smartphones include a fingerprint reader, of which 76 per cent are used while 31 per cent of smartphone users make no traditional voice calls in a given week. This contrasts with a quarter in 2015 and just 4 per cent in 2012,” the findings showed.
This isn’t the first such revelation where smartphone is proved unhealthy for our brain. A study also revealed that sending text messages on a smartphone or iPad can change the rhythm of our brain waves.
