Smartphone addiction is on the rise, with 26% of iPhone owners and 60% of respondents admitting to being "very" or "quite" addicted to the internet and their mobile phones. Social networking now accounts for 22.7% of online time spent on websites like Facebook and Twitter. A growing number of children and teenagers are also showing signs of smartphone addiction, with over half of all teenagers admitting to copying information straight from the internet for schoolwork without attribution.

1. Are you caught on the Web? Smart Phone Addiction

2. A smartphone is any type of cell phone that has additional features such as access to the internet, email, and instant messengers. It doesn’t matter if it’s an iPhone, Android, Nokia or a BlackBerry… Soure: The Windermere Word Photo: digitaltrends

3. Source: Crowd Science Photo: tabor-roederflikr 1 5 … a new survey finds smartphoneusers are addicted to their high-tech toys.

4. With the highest addiction rate at of iPhoneowners at Source: Crowd Science Photo: williamhook 26%

5. 60% of respondents admitted to being "very" or "quite" addicted to the internet, 50% while over are addicted to their mobile phones. Source: Crowd Science Photo: NICOLE WILLIAM

6. Social networking now eats up twice as much of our online time as any other activity. According to new stats from Nielsen, sites like Facebook and Twitter now account for of time spent on the web. 22.7%

7. 428 million mobile devices were sold in the first quarter of 2011 representing a 19% increase year-over-year. This growth is mainly due to smartphone sales, which were at 100.7 million an 85% year-over-year increase. Source: mobilenews Photo: Mile High Home Finder

8. of young children aged 6 to 9 own cell phones 22% 60% Source: cmch Photo: cellhpone channel of older children aged 10 to 14 are in the same situation.

9. It is estimated that… Source: cmch Photo: googleimages 54% of children aged 8 to 12 years will own a cell phone within the next three years.

10. 59.2% Over half of all teenagers ( )admitted to taking information straight from the internet and using it for schoolwork without reading it, nor changing it. Also, almost a third of the teenagers ( )think that this is an acceptable thing to do, even if it indeed is plagiarism. 28.5% Source: spreadtheword Photo: wordart

11. of 11-18 year olds surveyed admitted that text shortcuts damaged the quality of their written English, particularly in terms of spelling 1 3 Source: cellularnews Photo: samanthadehart

12. Parents claim their sons and daughters show signs of depression and apprehensiveness when they are unable to locate their phone. Source: Crowd Science

13. accidentscaused by cellphoneuse during driving have contributed to approximately 20% of all fatal car accidents? Source: Crowd Science Photo: tabor-roederflikr

14. If their smartphone fell in a public toilet… 57% of respondents would fish it out. Source: Crowd Science Photo: tabor-roederflikr

15. Source: Crowd Science Photo: tabor-roederflikr 41% 41 percent of cell phone users say they multitask by making phone calls while commuting or waiting

16. Are You Addicted?