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Study: Users addicted to mobile messaging
An overwhelming percentage of mobile messaging users admit to engaging in inappropriate or even dangerous behavior to access and respond to email during off hours according to a new consumer study conducted by Osterman Research and commissioned by software firm Neverfail. The study found that 94 percent of respondents use their phones to send email or text messages during worknights or on weekends, and nearly 96 percent never leave their phones at home, even on vacation.
Mobile email addiction has driven 79 percent of respondents to send messages from their phones while in the bathroom--another 71 percent admitted to texting behind the wheel of a moving automobile, and 41 percent said they've texted on commercial flights while the plane was in mid-air. Most appalling, 11 percent of respondents said they've sent mobile email while engaged in, um, "intimate behavior."
Seriously--what the hell is wrong with people?
For more on the Osterman study:
- read this release
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Comments
Posted by mca5516 | October 26, 2008 - 8:19am
as long as texting providers are concientious with their monthly rates & avoid gouging the kids under 18 who essentially learn to type, spell, compose, and complete paragraphs two sentences at a time via cell phone texting. I think we'll be alright.
As far as those wno choose to type while driving, except for the rare few who stay unreasonably lucky, most will find, It's hard to do, and if kept up will invariably lead to upsetting other drivers, who realise one is not watching the road, and if continued will most likely result in accident & death. For 96% of us Typing & Driving don't mix.
Posted by mca5516 | October 26, 2008 - 8:31am
As long as texting providers are concientious with their monthly rates & avoid gouging the kids under 18 who essentially learn to type, spell, compose, and complete paragraphs two sentences at a time via cell phone texting. I think we'll be alright.
As far as those wno choose to type while driving, except for the rare few who stay unreasonably lucky, most will find, It's hard to do, and if kept up will invariably lead to upsetting other drivers, who realise one is not watching the road, and if continued will most likely result in accident & death. For 96% of us Typing & Driving don't mix.
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