Mobile technology and smartphones have steadily increased the usage of video games and social media outlets in Sweden. According to the University of Gothenberg in Gothenberg, Sweden, over 60 percent of Swedish adolescents have a personal “smart” cellular telephone. The representative study of the Swedish people said that usage of the phone for voice calling and text messaging have steadily decreased in the most recent study completed in 2011 compared to the previous study in 2010. Instead, researchers say that mobile social media usage and mobile games are the most prevalent use of smartphones among a Swedish representative sample.

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