Four in ten British people feel lonely if they don’t get a text message every day

Right Mobile Phone, an online mobile phone retailer in the UK, recently conducted a survey of 3,138 British people to find out how their mobile phone impacted the emotions they feel over a given day. Here are some of the results:

• 71% say using their favorite song as their alarm clock, versus the system default or no alarm clock at all, made them feel happier that day
• 80% say not receiving a reply to their text messages makes them feel “negative”, whatever that means
• 41% said going by one day without getting a text message made them feel unpopular or lonely
• Less than one in 10 people, 9% to be exact, actually laughed at a text message despite 61% of people using “LOL” in a text message
• None of the people surveyed have ever rolled over the floor laughing, otherwise known as ROLFing, or laughed their asses off, otherwise known as LMAO or in my case LMFAO
• 82% of people love to hear from their partners or people they deeply care about on a daily basis
• 18% of people don’t pick up when their parents call
• 78% of people tell someone that they love them using a mobile phone on a daily basis
• Less than 7% of people said they could go one whole day without using their mobile phone
• On average, people have 95 people in their address book
• 69% of people call or text less than 8 people a week
• 18% of people have pretended to receive a call or text messages

[Via: Usability News]