More than half of teens in the United States spend an average of nine hours a day on their cell phones research shown by Quartz.com.  With the internet growing bigger and bigger each day, how do we know when enough is enough?

The big question is, can we really survive without our phones after learning to rely on it for nearly everything you encounter within a day? Leaning on them for so much has caused us to think of our phones as a security blanket. Phones can cause stress when we reach into our pockets to find it not there.

After staying up till 3 a.m. on our phones, wake up in the morning tired and unprepared for the day ahead. When will we stop and put down our phones and call it a day? Will that ever happen?

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Shae Bowsher

“I spend around two hours on my phone most days, on social media and health tracking apps. I feel like people rely on their phones too much in certain situations, like instead of having an important conversation in person it could cause them to fail to understand how the other one feels and how to solve problems. I think everyone should spend less time on electronics even me, we could survive without our phones, it will just be weird,” sophomore Brianna Mills said.