( CNN ) -- Think you use your phone to look at Facebook a lot ? Unless you 're doing it at least 14 times a day , you 're actually below average . That 's just one of the surprising revelations in a research report by IDC released Wednesday . The study tapped 7,446 iPhone and Android users in the U.S. between 18 and 44 — representative of the 50 % of the population that uses smartphones — and asked them questions about their phone usage across one week in March . Depending on your perspective , many of the results are either depressing or confirm what you knew all along . For example , it seems that 79 % of smartphone users reach for their devices within 15 minutes of waking up . A clear majority — 62 % — do n't even wait 15 minutes , and grab their phones immediately . ( Among 18- to 24-year-olds , the numbers rise to 89 % and 74 % . ) Given that the survey was sponsored by Facebook , most of the questions focus on the social network . Which is , it seems , only the third most popular app on your smartphone , after email and the browser . Still , 70 % of smartphone users are frequent Facebook visitors , with more than half of them checking it every day . Peak Facebook time is during the evening , just before bed . But any time 's good : on average , we visit the Facebook app or the site 13.8 times during the day , for two minutes and 22 seconds each time . Our average total daily mobile time on the site — and remember , this is just via our smartphones — is half an hour . That 's roughly a fifth of all the time we spend communicating ; it 's only slightly less time than we spend texting . On weekends , we check Facebook more than we text . Any place seems to be good to check Facebook , too . Some 46 % of us check it when we 're shopping or running errands ; 48 % use it at the gym . Even preparing a meal gives 47 % of us no respite from the social network . ( Well , what else are you going to do while you 're waiting for the microwave to ping ? ) Perhaps the most unpardonable sin : 50 % of smartphone users admit to checking Facebook while at a movie . We hope they mean only during the ads . So what are we spending all that time doing ? Well , for about half of that daily half-hour on the social network , we 're simply browsing our News Feed . The rest of the time is divided fairly evenly between Facebook messaging and posting updates . Half of Facebook users play games via the service on their phone a few times a day . Does the smartphone survey ring true to you ? Share your thoughts in the comments . © 2013 MASHABLE.com . All rights reserved .
New survey tracks Americans ' mobile phone habits and Facebook use . Score: 6 Peak Facebook use is in the evenings just before bedtime . Survey also found 50 % of users admit to checking Facebook while at a movie .