A life without a mobile phone and Internet for many unimaginable

Many teenagers can not imagine a life without a mobile phone
Technical innovations are quickly becoming part of everyday life and are already seemingly indispensable for future generations. This applies according to a recent survey of the pharmacy magazine "Baby and Family" today, for example, for the mobile phone. On behalf of the magazine, GfK Marktforschung Nürnberg asked young people about their attitude towards the mobile phone and found out that more than 80 percent of 14 to 19-year-olds can not imagine how everyday life could be handled without a cell phone.

The mobile phone is an essential everyday object for most young people. (Image: Lupo / pixelio.de)

Former phone booths formed an essential element of communication, so young people today, the search for a free telephone box or the rummaging through the pockets for change in small change completely unknown. A life without a mobile phone, as was usual about 20 years ago, can not imagine the younger generation. In the current representative survey, 82.4 percent of 14- to 19-year-olds and 72.7 percent of 20 to 29-year-olds said that coping with their everyday lives without a smartphone or cell phone was unimaginable. Overall, according to the representative survey, 39.8 percent of Germans agree.

A renunciation of the Internet also unimaginable
The Internet is also an elementary element in the lives of many Germans today, with every second Internet user (48.8 percent) stated in the current survey that they could not do without the network for more than a few days. "Of the 14 to 19-year-old Internet users, 80.6 percent do not have internet for a few days at most, 70.6 percent of the 20 to 29-year-olds," reports "Baby and Family". A total of 2,151 women and men aged 14 or over were surveyed by GfK Marktforschung Nürnberg, including 1,732 people using the Internet. (Fp)