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Checking news on your phone

So if you like a particular, for example, football team, you might check your phone a lot to find out the score, to follow and see how they're doing. Yeah, exactly. So, Neil, do...

Course: School, work, and technologySection: Following the newsSubtitles: en-gb

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1:14

Yes, and you can also follow sports, can't you?

1:14

So if you like a particular, for example, football team,

1:19

you might check your phone a lot to find out the score,

1:24

to follow and see how they're doing.

1:26

Yeah, exactly.

1:29

So, Neil, do you follow the news?

1:32

Yes, I think it’s difficult not to follow the news.

1:36

First thing in the morning,

1:38

I look on my phone to see if anything big has happened overnight,

1:44

and then I check a lot during the day just to see what’s happening.

1:49

So I do follow news. How about you?

1:52

Yes, I'm the same.

1:53

So I get notifications on my phone throughout the day,

1:58

but sometimes I find that that's a little bit too much.

2:03

Sometimes you need a break when you're working

2:07

and you don't want to see the news all the time,

2:10

and my phone does notify me a lot about the news.

2:15

Yeah, I think you can have too much news

2:19

and it can be not very good for you to read lots of usually quite bad news.

2:28

Yes, definitely.

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