A salesman checks a customer's iPhone at a mobile phone store in New Delhi, India.

You probably touch, tap, and swipe your phone 2,617 times per day

2,617

That’s how many time average US smartphone users touch their phones every day—including tapping, typing, swiping and clicking.

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A salesman checks a customer's iPhone at a mobile phone store in New Delhi, India.
2,617

That’s spurring some to sound the alarm about the addictiveness of smartphone apps and social media.

A salesman checks a customer's iPhone at a mobile phone store in New Delhi, India.
2,617

Justin Rosenstein, who created Facebook “likes” button, now describes them as “bright dings of pseudo-pleasure.”

A salesman checks a customer's iPhone at a mobile phone store in New Delhi, India.
2,617

“All of us are jacked into this system,” former Google employee Tristan Harris told the Guardian. “All of our minds can be hijacked. Our choices are not as free as we think they are.”

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