May 4, 2004
What kind of person sets their phone solely on vibrate mode?
I just love it when psychologists analyse people's choice of ringtones. I found this piece in Media Week, at the bottom of an article on media types and cell phones.
"According to psychologists, the ringer sound can say a lot about a person's character. Young professionals often choose popular music ringtones to show they fit in with the crowd, while an aggressive sales person who selects an action movie or TV theme is in someway compensating for a lack of drama in his or her own life.
Anyone in media who has never downloaded a song or wacky sound is probably too busy to bother or views a mobile phone as simply a functional business tool, say the experts. It is unclear what kind of person sets their phone solely on vibrate mode".
Related article on ringtone profiling:
-- What your ringtone says about you
-- Ringtones can reveal more about yourself that you might think
-- Ringtones: The new currency of cool
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