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Students Worldwide Share Mobile Addiction


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Without media in 10 countries

Chart shows emotions and reactions of students in 10 countries who went without media for 24 hours; numbers represent relative weights for each country.

International Center for Media & the Public Affairs

College students around the world are "strikingly similar" in their addiction to their cellphones and need to be connected to social media like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, according to a new study, which tracked the students' withdrawal symptoms after going a full 24 hours without those tools of daily life.

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