William Atkins
Monday, 06 September 2010 01:00
Science -
Health
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A Pew Research study has found that, in 2010, people in the United States love their cell phones because they “make them feel safer and more connected” but these same Americans also hate them because they are “irritated by cell intrusions and rudeness by others.”
The September 2, 2010 Pew Research Center press release “
Cell Phones and American Adults” states that 72% of American adult send and receive text messages with their cell phones.
The report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that this percentage, reported in May 2010, has increased from September 2009, when the percentage was 65%.
The report, which was performed by a telephone survey of adults 18 years of age or older, also indicates that the percentage of adults texting in the United States is still not anywhere close to the percentage of teenagers texting.
That percentage is 87%, whose statistics were taken in September 2009, of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 years.
The article also states that teens average about 50 text messages each day, which is five times more than the number by adults.
Page two talks more about why Americans like their cell phones.
