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When gadgets drive you apart
High-tech gadgets are driving millions of couples to sleep apart, a study shows. A third of people make phone calls and send or receive text messages or e-mails in bed.
- By Robin Yapp, The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2008
- Published: 01:09 March 8, 2008
- Eight out of 10 admit using computers or other gadgets at bedtime.
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London: High-tech gadgets are driving millions of couples to sleep apart, a study released on Friday shows.
Almost one in 10 couples sleep in different beds every night while a quarter admit to doing so on a regular basis. Four in 10 go to bed at a different time to their partner.
This is in part due to the bedroom becoming a communications hub rather than a place for sleep, according to the Sleep Council. After cleaning their teeth with an electric toothbrush, the adult sets the alarm on their BlackBerry or mobile phone and slips, exhausted, into bed between 10pm and 11pm. Eight out of 10 admit using computers or other gadgets at bedtime.
The research found a third of people make phone calls and send or receive text messages or emails in bed. A further fifth check social networking sites such as Facebook, play computer games or listen to MP3 players.
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