@gjohnsit

... 43 percent of Americans say they are checking their e-mails, texts, or social media accounts constantly. And their stress levels are paying for it: On a 10-point scale, constant checkers reported an average stress level of 5.3. For the rest of Americans, the average level is a 4.4.

Doesn't seem to ask WHY they're checking constantly?

Been hearing for quite a while about a lot of people sending out job applications for not enough decent jobs and getting back nothing/rejections because the jobs were instantly filled; lots of people searching for an affordable place to move to, with damn few of those and fewer all of the time; lots of people having a hard time/health issues to worry about and their friends and relatives would worry and want updates, even if unable to help, this inability causing another source of stress in what's likely already an overburdened life - yet this seems to present the stress levels as automatically being attributable to people having e-mails, texts, or social media accounts at all or some mass compulsion among the less-deserving-and-beloved-by-Mammon non-billionaire poors simply to pointlessly check them constantly due to some hereditary poors weakness?

Seems more likely that in many cases they'd be going to emails/texts/social media to relieve/try to escape RL stress, actually - perhaps for some degree of recreational human contact they chronically lack meat-space time and resources for, and this causing stress they then seek to reduce in whatever way is available to them.

Way too much deceptive stuff transferring blame from conditions created by the Parasite Class to the thoroughly drained and poisoned victims, in this case for having what's now an essential to many - internet, complete with emails, texts and social media.

I do hope there's no provider or other plan festering to restrict/extra-charge by time periods internet access for 99% of us purportedly on mental health grounds, but there's very little which would anymore surprise me and less all of the time, wherever any potential corporate profit or power might be further expanded.

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If you pull out your phone to check Twitter while waiting for the light to change, or read e-mails while brushing your teeth, you might be what the American Psychological Association calls a “constant checker.” And chances are, it’s hurting your mental health.
Last week, the APA released a study finding that Americans were experiencing the first statistically significant stress increase in the survey’s 10-year history. In January, 57 percent of respondents of all political stripes said the U.S. political climate was a very or somewhat significant source of stress, up from 52 percent who said the same thing in August. On Thursday, the APA released the second part of its 1 findings, “Stress In America: Coping With Change,” examining the role technology and social media play in American stress levels.
Social media use has skyrocketed from 7 percent of American adults in 2005 to 65 percent in 2015. For those in the 18-29 age range, the increase is larger, from 12 percent to a remarkable 90 percent. But while an increase in social media usage is hardly surprising, the number of people who just can’t tear themselves away is stark: Nowadays, 43 percent of Americans say they are checking their e-mails, texts, or social media accounts constantly. And their stress levels are paying for it: On a 10-point scale, constant checkers reported an average stress level of 5.3. For the rest of Americans, the average level is a 4.4.