Half of All Daters Can't Tear Themselves Away From Their Phones

的re are so many signs that a date is going badly, and one of them is that the person across from you looks at their phone more than they do your face. SellCell wants to alert people to the signs they could be sending or receiving, so it conducted asurvey about cell phone use and dating(Opens in a new window).

的chance that your date will be checking out their phone more than you is about 50/50. Of those surveyed, 50.4% said they forgo looking at their phone on a date night. That does leave 49.6% who find that their attention is drawn toward their phone. The majority of these daters (75.2%) said they try to keep their screen time to under 30 minutes.

Secrecy is not a good thing in a relationship, so maybe we shouldn’t shun the 35.7% who said they would not hide their phone use on a date. We will side-eye the 6.4% who think they’re getting away with something by using their phone under the table. And let’s not even speak of the 7.6% who use the cover story of having to go to the bathroom as an excuse to check their phone.

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