Studies show text messaging and online activity both on increase
It seems we are relying on technology to stay connected more and more these days, with two recent studies showing both online activity and mobile phone text messaging are on the increase.
Reuters are reporting that a new Harris poll shows almost 80 percent of adults in the USA (that’s 178 million people) go online at least once a week.
Regina Corso, director of the Harris Poll said:
“We’re up to almost 80 of adults who now are online, or are somehow gaining access to the Internet. That’s a pretty impressive figure.”
“They are finding however possible to get online…A third of the people who are online, that’s how they’re getting there – some alternate way,”
“Baby boomers are online. As they become more and more part of that population, we’re going to see larger swings there.”
When Harris first conducted the poll in 1995, only 9 percent of the population ventured on to the Internet. That has risen steadily since, being 57 percent in 2000 and 77 percent in 2006.
Meanwhile Britain is experiencing an ever increasing boom in the use of text messaging as the preferred means to stay in touch with friends and family. This is after recently being declared the biggest tech spenders in Europe.
There are 69 million registered handsets, which isn’t bad for a population of just over 60 million. And those mobile phone owners are now sending 1.2 billion texts a week up 25 percent on this time last year.
The MDA (Mobile Data Association) claim on Reuters that 5 billion texts were sent in September, 5 times more than were sent in the whole of 1999.
MDA Chairman Mike Short said:
“The UK text volumes show no real signs of abating and the UK sits within the top six of the global league of countries sending text messages.”
“While the trend towards operators offering ‘all-you-can-eat’ tariffs increases, this will act as a catalyst for consumers’ passion for all things mobile.”
So it seems the push towards almost exclusively relying on technology for our everyday needs, from communication, shopping and entertainment continues onwards at an ever increasing pace.
You know where this, along with the recent forecasts about robots, is going to end up don’t you? The Matrix that’s what… mark my words.
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