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Post by jeffolie on Nov 10, 2014 11:53:30 GMT -6
November 10, 2014 Texting Is Number-One Form of Communication Texting is the dominant form of communication among Americans, according to a Gallup survey. Thirty-nine percent of Americans say they texted "a lot" yesterday—slightly larger than the 38 percent who talked a lot on a cell phone and the 37 percent who sent or read emails a lot. (Only 9 percent say they used a landline phone a lot yesterday.) Of course the 1 or 2 percentage-point difference between these three most common modes of communication are statistically insignificant, but a look at the numbers by age confirms that texting will increasingly dominate communication in the years ahead. More than two-thirds of young adults (aged 18 to 29) say they texted a lot yesterday, far above the 50 percent who talked a lot on a cell phone or the 47 percent who sent/received emails a lot. Among people aged 30 to 49 as well, texting surpasses cell phone calls (41 percent) or emailing (44 percent). Here are the percentages who say they texted a lot yesterday by age... Aged 18 to 29: 68% Aged 30 to 49: 47% Aged 50 to 64: 26% Aged 65-plus: 8% Source: Gallup, The New Era of Communication among Americans demomemo.blogspot.com/
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Nov 11, 2014 1:07:29 GMT -6
Sad.
Very sad.
Texting is the epitome of dumbing-down communication and the content contained.
Texting is like reverting back to the Stone Age--before humans could read and write--by communicating in broken, semi-intelligible abbreviations and symbols.
It's 'twitting' on an even more massive, and even dumber scale.
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