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

Categories: Research
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 5:48 AM

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]

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

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    And you have a photo of a chav, why?

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I knew I’d get at least one comment about my photo selection, didn’t know it would be that quick though.