Ypulse: Teens and young adults send more SMS than any other demographics
Posted by Dusan on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 at 7:39 am under Research
It’s kinda obvious that teens and young adults are texting more than any other demographic. We just didn’t knew how much more they do that…
According to Ypulse, people ages 13-24 send more than 50 messages per week. In contrast, half of all survey respondents use text messaging at least once a week. Furthermore, Ypulse’s findings indicate that 54% of the mentioned demographic use SMS for social networking, while 44% of them use it for flirting or dating. Finally, 10% of 13-34 year olds said they have broken up with a boy or girl friend using text messaging. Now, that’s nasty…
[Via: textually.org]
November 28th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
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November 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
this is so true.
being 17, i can totally agree with this.
i would rather text a friend then make a phonecall.
especially when in class
January 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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