Note: contest Rules below the infographic…
Just 15 years ago cell phones were rare, 3x as big and didn’t do nearly as many cool things. We used our phones just to talk. These days though, more and more people are getting better and faster technology to help them keep up with their busy lives and families.
We use them in nearly every aspect of our lives whether its for home, work, or school. The Modern Mother certainly has taken advantage of this great technology and there are plenty of smartphone apps to help her along the way. Life360 helps keep families stay connected and safe while apps like Cozi assist Mom with organizing and Instant Playdates make scheduling playdates simple, all right from your smartphone!
With great tools like these, it is easy to see why the Modern Mom is depending more and more on her smartphone. We surveyed some Life360 members to ask how they use their smartphones and found some interesting results! The majority (52%) use their smartphone within 5 minutes of waking up in the morning. Even more (78%) say they use it right before bed! We thought it was interesting that 28.7% said they would not give up their smartphone even if they were paid.
The smartphone has become an invaluable tool. Most of us have become attached to our phone all day long. We use it for email, staying connected with family and friends, keeping our lives organized, finding our way around the city–nearly every part of our lives are touched by our smartphones. Does this sound like you too?
We’ve created an infographic illustrating all of our findings and the rise of the smartphone mom. Check it out, after the jump!
Modern Mom (or Dad) Contest
If you think you’re a Modern Mom (or Dad), leave your most modern moment stories or an example showing how your smartphone has become integrated into your life below in the comments for a chance to win a $100 gift card from Amazon, iTunes, or Target!
The fine print: Each time you leave a comment on this post (starting today until 9 pm pst next Sun, Nov 13th), you’re automatically entered in our drawing — up to 3 comments per person. We will announce the winner on Monday afternoon (the 14th).
Comments must come from individuals 18 or older, U.S. residents, and obviously, spam comments don’t count. We’re looking for real comments, from real people having real conversations about how you use technology. The winners will be announced sometime on Monday, so check back then!
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Smartphones are so useful! I don't know how people did things before this era.
We have four smartphones and use them to keep our schedules on Google Calendar. This way everyone knows what everyone else is doing and where we need to be. It has truly helped us stay connected and where we need to be.
Same here with Google Calendar: Each member in my family uses Google Calendar and we can each edit one another’s calendar from our respective phones (or a web browser). Finally getting this one the phone has once and for all enabled us to ditch our respective paper calendars. Excellent productivity!
I use my iPhone for everything from accessing the internet to a gps. I use it to check email,access social media and find recipes or fun things for our family to do. It's a part of my daily life
We've got 3 kids, all involved in activities and having a shared calendar is vital. I can't remember that much stuff and this way its always at my fingertips..
I use my phone for almost everything. It holds so much information and I have access to my work. I love it.
My husband loves his phone too. He's always looking up new apps to help with with various things.
I'm pretty lame I guess because all I have is a laptop. We don't even have cable, haha! I'd really like to get a tablet though!
I love to use my smart phone for comparison shopping so I know I'm getting the best deal at the stores.
I use my smartphone for nearly everything! I use it a lot for coupon/deal shopping especially to save the family money!
Love the infographic!
My current favorite thing to do with my smartphone is downloading and listening to audio books! I have been getting caught up on my “reading” thanks to my smartphone!
I love being able to reach out and touch my boys whenever I need to and have instant access to them wherever they are or whatever they are doing.
I'm a modern mom (without a Smartphone) who blogs…something many modern moms do!
I don't have a smartphone, but would love to use one particularly for shopping with Q codes, so much easier than printing coupons and bringing them to the stores.
i just got the iphone 4 and already I cant live without it! I can now email pictures to my friends as well as keep track of appointments and other things without a million little sticky notes!
I don't have a smart phone, but I sure wish I did!
I remember being in 9th grade and I got to borrow my dad's huge chunky bright yellow cell phone. I was so proud that day at school
Now, I go without as much as possible. It's quite distracting to be in the middle of a real conversation and then buzzzz or text-click, click. I really prefer vis-a-vis. Sorry technology.
my 2 year old goes up to an iphone ad and starts trying to use it to play his favorite game
Although I don’t own a smart phone (just a qwerty keyboard cell) and am still stuck on dial up, I would be lost without my technology. I was behind most getting a computer and really didn’t get into technology until about 11 years ago and now I don’t know what I’d do without it. My kids are following in my footsteps as well..they love the computer and Ipod touch and they are very into technology as well.
Wanna go to the movies on the spur of the moment, son?
No problem. I just check my phone and make a plan
Pouty teenager because he has to be dragged around town with his mom?
Play a game on the phone and all is well again.
I was at the thrift store yesterday, and thought I found a treasure. I was able to whip out the phone and check it out.
Sadly though, it was not a treasure. It was worth next to nothing.
My smartphone is integrated into my life in so many ways… I use it for simple things such as alarms, reminders, uploading images/status updates to twitter, facebook, google +, etc. I also used shared apps with my husband so that we can edit lists (like our grocery list) on our phones and share documents & pictures through dropbox. I also use the gps navigation and love having quick, convenient internet access with me at all times.
when i handed my iphone over to the kiddos to play games to keep them quiet …. and they knew exactly how/what games they wanted to play…it has become a way of life for all of us!!
I can’t imagine life with out technology and always being plugged in. Anytime I have a question or my children..I plue it into my smart phone to get the answer. Thanks for this amazing giveaway. If I won I could get more technology.
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sounds like youre a true tech addict! 
I love having a smartphone because I have children! It has taught them their alphabet, how to spell, helped with reading and for the older one, it lets me know exactly where her and her phone are located. That helped when her phone was stolen! We were able to locate it with my smart phone!!
I love my Smartphone so I can keep all of my information in one place.
It's my computer away from home. The GPS is probably my favorite because I often get lost driving around new places.
The any time access to a smart phone is great.
I use my phone to track my family (gps), shared family calendar (through Google) for us to share our appointments, dinner menu, etc., coupon apps for great deals, kids games for long trips with a 4 year old, flashlight app when we lose power and to check kids for strep throat, exercise apps, research on the internet, taking pictures and videos, keeping track of work appointments, and of course Facebook, email, phone, and texting. It is not *technically* a necessity I guess, but boy does it make life so much more efficient!
I use an app that tracks my sleep patterns to wake me up at the best time. I guess that means I even use my iPhone while I sleep! :O
there is no risk. the only thing that mother do it becsuse tehy get frusteted because we are all the time buzzy on that…
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Nowadays with all that smartphone invasion is normal seeing moms getting familiar with them, is very easy to communicate with their children and she can know where they are in every moment, so sumarizing, if you ask me, they have a positive impact on familiar living and society in general.
I use my Smartphone in my daily job. This GPS feature is really good. pmp online exam
2012 Is going to be the year of smartphones, is well known by everybody that last year were sold more smartphones that laptops or desktops, so there will be on nere future much more people browsiing the net on a modile device, time to make changes I guess. Gregoria Nozum from audio visual installation companies.
I use all the functions on mine, mostly as a GPS though
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