Report: Overwhelming number of millennials are quite literally glued to their phones

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Since the advent and never-ending development of the smartphone, more and more people have found it particularly difficult to separate themselves from their mobile device.

And it makes sense.

A phone is so much more than a phone these days. It gathers information at the push of a button, it entertains us with a download of an app and keeps us connected with friends, family and even strangers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

It’s why our phones never leave our side, particularly in the case of millennials.

According to Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Mary Meeker, 87 percent of young adults — those between 18 and 34 — who own smartphones report that they never leave their mobile device behind, with four out of five saying that reaching for their smartphone is the first thing they do when they wake up in the morning.

The report also says that 78 percent of young adults spend more than two hours per day on their smartphones, with three out of five contending that in five years, everything will be done on mobile devices.

So what exactly are teens and millennials doing on their phones?

Meeker’s study shows that Instagram and Facebook reign supreme in the world of social media, with nearly one-third of teens averaging 16 years of age saying that Instagram is their most frequented social media platform.

Facebook still holds a lofty place among social media giants, though its usage among 12 to 24-year-olds has dropped from 80 percent to 74 percent in the last year.