Mobile users talk, share more often than other people
Mobile phone users talk and share more often with friends than people using traditional media, says Pew’s latest research on tech and social.
And that’s just one bit of interesting stuff I discovered in this recent Pew report “Social Isolation and New Technology.”
Here’s an excerpt on mobile versus traditional communication:
- Traditional media: The average person sees each member of their core network 210 days of the year, talks to them using a landline telephone on 125 days, and sends each core network member an average of 8 letters or cards.
- ICTs: If they have a mobile phone, the average person talks to each core network member by mobile phone on 195 days. Email users send messages to each core tie on 72 days of the year. If a person uses text messaging (SMS), on average they send text messages to each core network member on 125 days. Those who use instant messaging contact core ties by IM on 55 days of the year. Of those who use social networking services (SNS), SNS are used to message each core tie an average of 39 days each year.
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