You just have to love how we seem to need a study to prove every mundane, obvious fact these days. I'm waiting with baited breath for the followup study that shows cell phone use is on the rise.
Quote from: CNN
Study: 'Texting' on the rise in U.S. NEW YORK (AP) -- A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices' text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.
Usage correlates with age: 63 percent of cell phone users ages 18-27 have used text messaging compared with 31 percent for ages 28-39 and 7 percent for those over 60.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project also found that 28 percent of people who text message have received unsolicited commercial messages that way.
Text messaging allows cell phone users to receive and send short messages to other cell phone users or e-mail recipients. Services also are available to receive news alerts and other information through text messaging.
Also known as SMS, for Short Message Service, "texting" is highly popular in Europe and Asia but only starting to catch on in the United States.
The Pew study was based on a random telephone survey of 1,460 cell phone users January 13 to February 9. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
If only there was a system whereby everyone with a phone had some sort of individual code number that you could type in to the phone and use a microphone and speaker to set up some sort of simple two way audio communication arrangement.
Then people wouldn't have to fiddle about typing cryptic messages with their thumbs at least.
"People will not assume that what they read on the internet is trustworthy or that it carries any particular assurance or accuracy" - Lord Leveson "Hyperbole is a cancer" - Lakov Sanite
Why would anyone stop doing studies like these? See, this is what they take to complete idiots with the unfortunate (for us) burden of having shittons of money to spend on idiotic ideas like text message advertising to part said idiots from their money.
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