Study: Gadgets have made the lives of the rich people more 'stress'

Today, most of us have enough of expendable cash just go out and buy each new hot gadget that suits our fancy. It is, however, that it is perhaps not a bad thing for our general happiness. According to a recent study, rich members of society feel that electronics more they buy, the more complicated feel their lives.

The study comes from the Ipsos Mendelsohn research firm, whose household surveys who earn more than $100,000 per year. When asked in January how their lives had changed these past ten years, a whopping 79 percent said that life had become more in more "technology infused." This is because it has.

Almost all members affluent society % — 98 - spend at least 25 hours a week on the Internet. The Group of the upper crust has an average of 3.5 televisions, and approximately 75 percent own high - definition televisions. Two thirds of the respondents have a digital video recorder (DVR) related to their TV.

"The most dramatic changes were seen in the adoption of"new"media platforms," write Bob Shullman and Stephen Kraus, President and Director research and insights from Ipsos Mendelsohn, respectively, in a blog on the Ad age. These platforms include smartphones - that "barely qualify 'new media'," said Shullman and Kraus - tablets and e-readers.

More than half of the wealthy own smartphones and 92% have a sort of cellular or wireless device. Shullman and Kraus predict that, while only 14% now have a tablet, a third full-wealthy will possess one over the next 12 months. The number of "Rich" who have e-readers has more than doubled between September 2010 and 2011 April 13 to 23 per cent.

Despite the gadget spree among these wells off the coast of spending, their quality of life seems to have, if anything, degraded. After the option "brewed technology" for how their lives had changed, the next most-picked options were "more complicated", "most stressful" and "focused on the search for ways to do more with less." Less than half said that life had become "more fun."

Shullman and Kraus said that, with the direction that we appear to be directed, the infusion of technology get more intense, at least in the short term.