From Crackberry to iCrack: Stanford students are crazy about their iPhones

So who thought Blackberry users were the only ones who were in love with their smartphone? Owning a Blackberry has always been known to bring about an addiction for the device, also known as the “crackberry” addiction. Well according to a recent survey conducted on Stanford University students, we can also give the Apple iPhone this prestigious claim.

Welcome to the age of iCrack. The survey discovered that more than a third of respondents had received complaints they were using their iPhone way too much. Three-quarters reported that their iPhone actually made them happier people, and finally a whopping 58 percent of students in the experiment agreed they actually felt a genuine love for their iPhones.

Professor Tanya Luhrmann conducted the experiment. “One of the most striking things we saw in the interviews was just how identified people were with their iPhone,” she said. “It was not so much with the object itself, but it had so much personal information that it became a kind of extension of the mind and a means to have a social life. It just kind of captured part of their identity.”

Professor Luhrmann also noticed another common feature: Subjects gave their iPhones names and identities as if they were friends, or some sort of extension of the actual people in the survey. With those types of results, it’s not shocking that 75 percent of all the students surveyed were falling asleep with their beloved Apple iPhones like actual companions. With the iPad coming in soon, and the iPhone 4G on the horizon sometime this year (probably around the June-July time frame), I wonder how many more smartphone hopefuls and users will join us, the millions of iCrack addicts out there on the campus of Stanford and beyond.

Via: Silicon Valley Mercury News

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