Listen: psychologist Honey Langcaster-James on mobile phone addiction

The only thing not on lockdown this year has been the mobile phone with usage soaring and more than a third of Brits (36 per cent) relying on it completely for a ‘social life’.

We’ve done everything from texting, dating, searching for jobs to ordering food, shopping and watching TikTok videos.

Despite a year where we’ve been cooped up indoors and kept apart our phones have brought us closer together.

The research, commissioned by Three Mobile, also revealed more than a third of Brits would have been bored without their mobile phone this year while 29 per cent wouldn’t have been able to cope.

Aston spoke to Honey Langcaster-James, TV psychologist to discuss the research in further detail.

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