Americans love their cell phones more than TV
Americans would find it harder to part with their mobile phones than the Internet, television or landline telephones, according to a survey released Wednesday. The report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project also found that Americans are using their cellphones and other wireless devices for more activities including text messaging, taking pictures or sending email. Some 51 percent of those surveyed said they would find it hard to give up their cellphones, compared with 45 percent for the Internet, 43 percent for television and 40 percent for landline phones. “When asked how hard it would be to give up a specific technology, respondents are now most likely to say the cellphone would be most difficult to do without, followed by the Internet, TV, and landline telephone,” the report said.
this is where the story ends…
“This represents a sharp reversal in how people viewed these technologies in 2002,” when the landline telephone was the favorite technology, he said. The report said that among the 75 percent of Americans who own a mobile phone or similar device, most are expanding the way they use it. About 10 percent have watched videos, while 58 percent have sent or received text messages. Nineteen percent have used the devices for email or to access the Internet. The study appears to confirm that text messaging is important for younger technology users. Sixty percent of those aged 18-30 send or receive text messages on a typical day, compared with 32 percent for those in the 30-49 age group and 14 percent in the 50-64 age bracket. The survey questioned 2,054 adults between October and December 2007.
Source: AFP
Comments(57)
Probably because they can’t order a quick takeaway on a TV set
damn thing always rings when i go have a nap on the sofa so I, not being american though, would be happy to part with telephones altogether
also people were a lot more social before phones, you could go visit people without calling a week in advance
(although the good thing is, no need anymore to put up with loud friends who do not understand to get f out when it’s 10pm)
but yesterday the net was not working for three hours or so and i got severe withdrawal symptoms and had nothing to do so actually went out for a beer
Americans are fat, ugly and stupid.
@ British
Not all of them. A lot of them do fall into the latter two categories (this coming from someone who lives there)
However…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc
*sigh*
…..and what has this got to do with scene releases?
Tech News is getting way too many posts. Usually about really uninteresting stuff like this.
Don’t they get delivered to work on a fork truck or is that a HGV
DukeNuke: i just received 2 emails how cool this section is. the solution is simple as always: skip it or dont come here at all.
@3
British
Coming from the land of bad teeth, bad food, and whor- er, working class stiffs who can’t be bothered to move to where the work is — all the while complaining they have no work and sitting their fat dole collecting, council house living arses, I guess you’d know something about being fat, ugly and lazy — not mention butt stupid.
i like tu fck girls
good for you dumbass
@Martin
Why can’t you take a little bit of criticism? I don’t think I was being stupid or screaming curse words.
I do not mind the odd bit of tech news which has something to do with blank media and what have you, but in the past months tech news is just becoming too much.
950 tech news entries Vs 940 DVDrips
Tech news should not be taking over RLS posts. I think you should tone it down a bit and keep the tech news.
As this has a world wide audience I don’t see what relevance this has to me, sat in London…or to do with scene release for that matter, esp when in the is very box its says if you post off topic, you will be banned, so should Martin be banned?
Hey @British maybe someone should teach the English how to use a toothbrush or how to cook Prpoerly
martin is g@y he always deletes comments
yea martin should be banned
I agree with the others.
I like the tech news; its good.. I find out about new microprocessers, or how the iphone has been hacked and what not. if its something that bores me, i skip it… problem solved.
but at the risk of sounding unamerican.. who cares if the yanks like their ‘cell’ phones more then other mediums..
what does that have to do with the UK, or asia, of the aussies? where are the tech-specific news for our countries? (cause I am sure everyone would love to hear about how someone found a laptop in a kangroos pouch)
As an american I don’t believe this, nor does anyone I know. It makes me upset when I see a poll that says Americans would rather this or Americans think that, they didn’t ask all of us, so don’t take it seriously.
why is it that people think the british have bad teeth? is it because the american’s all use bleech? ur ridiculously stupid if you think teeth are supposed to be THAT white, but the worst thing is you go and get a fake tan so that makes them look EVEN dumber.
@8 gavrielle
whor*s??? every country in the world has them, and america being bigger and having a higher pop i wudd guess they have more. by the way trailer trash have bad teeth, are ALL whor*s, cook dead things they find on the road, never work, live in high risk tornado areas and complain about getting hit by them…. yet are too lazy, fat, ugly, disgustingly poor wasters to hook up their trailers and move. whos the dumb fu*ks now?
@13 teaser
someone should teach the americans to speak english, stop interfering in other peoples business and to cook. YES cook i missed the part when americans gave masterclasses in cooking…Ooo right flipping them burgers needs talent, skill and years of training.
All in all, you dumb americans should respect the land that gave birth to your missguided dumb fu*k of a country. we are older and bigger so dont forget that.
All this shows is that Americans that are pathetic enough to take a survey love their phones.
To say you would rather have a cell-phone than the internet just shows these people do not understand how the internet works.
Actually, now that I type that out, I guess that is a majority of Americans. Sh_t.
I wonder how spread out this poll is.
@18
“All in all, you dumb americans should respect the land that gave birth to your missguided dumb fu*k of a country.”
heh, you mean… “Native” America & Mexico? Europe didn’t give birth to anything, more like a virus spreading from a popped zit.
erm… yea, I can tell you surely that I would have voted to keep internet (v. phone); not really sure how many americans I know (other than 30+ business-suits w/smartphones) who would give up their internet…
unfortunately americans (or any culture en masse)aren’t too intelligent (e.g. internet + VoIP = land-line + internet)
*shrug* imo, this survey is fodder.
@18
“we are older and bigger so dont forget that.”
who’s we? i assumed you were speaking from the standpoint of the British but surely not. otherwise that means you’ve never looked at a map.
@18….What are you 12? Thanks for the laughs.
Scenario 1: People don’t know what they hell they prefer — cellphones? pff. They should be smacked in the head to take up.
Scenario 2: There are 3 types of lies: big lies, medium lies, and statistics. Don’t tell me 2,054 people represent 301,139,947 (July 2007 est).
The conclusion is this — if you’re American, buy more cellphones; you obviously love them (but probably don’t know it yet).
Congratulations for taking part in their marketing campaign, Martin!
Out of curiosity, and ignoring that this “survey” is shockingly idiotic and clearly naught save a marketing tool, how exactly does one go from “Americans love cell phones more then TV/Internet/Landlines” to “Americans are fat and lazy”? Doesn’t one primarily use a cell phone when NOT sitting on the couch (especially when landlines are specifically mentioned)? Wouldn’t the bon-bon stuffing TV watchers that Americans all supposedly are have preferred to give up anything but TV rather than TV being next to last?
I do realize that expecting logic or sense out of mindless bigots would be foolish at best and that all that’s really involved here is the term “Americans” was in the title so we must be sure and post an idiotic stereotype or three, but the jump involved in todays requisite America-bashing seems even more mentally deficient than usual.
ugh this is sickening every time “America” is mentioned in any article on rlslog out come America is fat, America is stupid- enough is enough. Sure America makes mistakes but we also do some pretty damn good things as well. Take maybe 70 percent of the apps, movies and music posted on RLSLOG- made by Americans, don’t be so quick to chastise the US with child like comments…
its a good thing us stupid fat americans bailed you brits out in ww2, lest all your women would have had to sell their bodies too would have been either the French or the Nazis after rolling over your asses!
lol, sorry! that was a bit childish huh?
honestly, the truth about America is that many of us are in fact honest hard working people with rock solid virtues, while some of us are poor, downtrodden, filesharers, I have a great idea! what say you we quit squabbling amongst our filesharing selves and leave those kind of attacks to the real enemies?
#27
My take on things is that, in America, great people can do great things, thanks to a part of the inherited American ideology of individualism and such.
This does not however change the fact that most Americans are stupid/religious, and only follow these ideals because it’s patriotic/nationalistic.
However, most people on this planet are stupid, so don’t feel bad.
How did you get from a marketing campaign to judging people?…
well, duh, anyone could figure this out!
since India has the largest cell-phone friendly population, does that make them the fattest and laziest of all?
So Brit, Brits don’t have cellphones?
@ adam
Bad news for you pal. Shorrtybearr was talking about people, not trees or montains or even animals. Do you know that more than 70% of american people are white/caucasian? Guess what, caucasian people don’t pop like mushrooms neither born from ‘“Native” America & Mexico’…
@adam:
we are working hard to make sure Americans remain that way…
@ 24…why on earth do you Americans still believe you bailed us out of WWII?! we would have won it anyway. FACT.
This from a country who has NEVER won a war in it’s history. (And the Civil War doesn’t count as it wasn’t the USA then)
@ 34, no Xander we have ‘mobile phones’
sorry, I meant 28, not 24, and yes, it was childish
This America hate is amazing. I love it.
I appreciate every one of these scathing comments against those evil bastard, snip-tip yanks.
“Americans are fat, ugly and stupid.” as the third comment made my morning!
@james:
“we would have won it anyway. FACT”
…you should maybe, dictionary.com “FACT” … um, hypothetical situations don’t apply to the term
Ah the Brits. Such a great history of sailing around the globe imposing rule on people for their benefit. All the problems in the middle east lead directly back to the Brits having stuck their nose where it shouldn’t belong. How these snarled toothed colonial bastards are ever taken seriously is beyond me.
Keeping telling yourselves your better than everyone else if it makes you happy. Its quite obvious your not. Overall crime is higher in the UK, you throw bottles at one another before and after football, yes, very civilized.
Your modern military history is one of defending an island 12,000 miles from your homeland, with more sheep than people. Its kind of a joke really.
Cry some more about the burden you are shouldering in Afghanistan. Those brutal 6 month deployments, how unfair. Actually having to fight a worthy enemy, how unfair.
Dont get your foreskins in a tangle because your not the big kid on the block any longer. It was only a matter of time that such a silly people would decline so rapidly.
politically…
USA = hegemony
world = [almost] unipolar
(if you don’t know what this means, look it up before saying anything stupid, i’m attempting to educated the rampant-running mindless who post here)
let’s see… 1 + 2 = …
the hegemony will *always* be in contest with other political entities, that’s the way of things. ergo, until another many many OTHER poles come into play as near-hegemony, there will be a unipolar “f-u america”-sentiment in all other places.
if (ever) the world reaches multipolarity THEN things get better.
if you flame for this, you are a moron. tyvm. the end.
until then, sod off–you’re
…not going to get results with BS hypothetical situations like “we would have won the war ourselves” … right, hearsay makes the BEST point.
@18
The British have the most horrible foods. No spice, no flair. At least MacDonald’s has a special sauce that isn’t made of hogs lard and Kentucky Fried Chicken, with more than 20 herbs and spices is the coating, is always edible. This cannot be said for your greasy fish and chips or nasty jellied eels. Even your Indian food is as bland as your island, though it’s mildly spicy flavor is the reason it is so popular now.
Your teeth, along with the rest of Europe’s are crooked, as well as yellowed from badly made teas. You believe you make a proper cup of the stuff, but the Chinese would beg to differ. A decent cup of coffee, unless it comes out of Starbucks or any other American style coffee shop or French, Italian or Turkish cafe cannot be found among the freeze dried loving populace.
English women of all classes have turned to prostitution in previous generations, more frequently than most out of necessity, because your greedy middle classes thought filthy workhouses where mothers and children were separated were a perfectly acceptable way to deal with poverty and homelessness. The poor saw it differently. Therefore, if your family has lived in any British town or city for more than a century, you are no doubt descended from the son or daughter of a woman forced to whore herself out in order to survive.
Luckily, in America, the workhouse phenomena was supplanted by slavery. Another British import, by the way.
@42
Empires do what empires have always done and will continue to do – act imperialistically. Lucky for the US that our European brethren taught us how to do it right by making so many bass akward mistakes when they had the chance. Coca-cola, movies, music and useful technologies are a much better way to win, if not the hearts and minds of client states like Britain, then the contents of their pockets. Which is all we really want, you know. As an early twentieth century business man once told the British ambassador of the time (after he commented on how we looked to become an empire in the future): America doesn’t want to rule the world, we’d rather own it. And the world’s population, dumb as posts most of them, still hasn’t figured out that they’ve already been Americanized for more than a generation.
EVERYONE READ WHAT 37 (James) WROTE
@37 James
“This from a country who has NEVER won a war in it’s history. (And the Civil War doesn’t count as it wasn’t the USA then)”
Civil War – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
American Revolution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
You my friend are an idiot
@45
i’m sorry i wasn’t asking a question.
i was telling.
And I was commenting on your statement.
@44
have u ever been to Europe? we dont have bad teeth, we dont have yellow teeth and the food is a matter of opinion, i dont like curry but then again a lot of my Indian friends do. so stop stating your opinion as fact.
I am probably descendant from a whore but then again we all are so its kinda a null n void point there mate. oooh and MacDonalds!!! are you seriously entering that as your food of choice when comparing national dishes? seriously? are you really going with that?
@41
dont bring the middle east into this. This is about food and the foolish Americans. the middle east is whole other American bashing issue.
@23
I mean in the sense of our history, not the size of our country. Im not dumb enough to make that mistake for all to point out.
@24
No im not 12 and ur welcome
@21
Either way you emanated from Europe, ur comment makes no sense.
Anyway I’m finished with this conversation because I’ve better things to do, go argue amongst yourselves.
Who wants to know about this?
Rslg is run by americans for americans.. In Europe 3G (third generation) it´s used a long time ago, I can imagine what they can do with 2G phones..
(sorry about my english, its not my native language)
Ignore the english moron James. The english were a joke in WW2. The commonwealth and Scotland/Wales fought harder and more on the line than the public schoolboy limies. Russia won ww2 WITH US LEND LEASE AID.
Most railway tracks in Russia today were made from steel shipped from America in WW2. If Germany was given the lend lease that Russia got, they would have won the war easily.
@49
I will comment on what I please. By posting here, you invited such comment.
@50
If you are all allowed to make obnoxious statements and rude remarks regarding Americans based on generalizations and spite, then we are equally entitled to do so. If you don’t like it then don’t invite the Euro bashing by looking the other way when your countrymen start America bashing. We don’t start these fights, you Euro trash do that every chance you get thinking (because Americans are usually too polite to tell you how much we despise you all) that we are either too stupid or too ashamed to hit back. We are neither, you nitwit.
@54
please quit speaking on the behalf of citizens of the united states.
i don’t want you representing me with your lack of intellect. k thx
all you british people are funny. you talk the most trash about the US when your country is even more horrible. dont even need to get into specifics. you know your country is sh!tty
Lies! This one lives without a phone. Having one was bad enough, to imagine carrying one about… no.