February 11, 2004
Answering phone beats sex
Sex, bathing, working, shopping and exercise all come second to answering a mobile phone for almost half of Australians, according to a new survey, according to News.com.
"The Siemens Mobile Lifestyle Survey of 371 Australians found 48 per cent would stop whatever they were doing no matter where they were to answer a mobile phone, even if they were in a "compromising situation".
Some other enlightening findings:
- 25 per cent of Australians schedule all their social events and engagements using their mobile phone and as such most could not bear to be without it.
- 39 per cent of young people said they would return home to retrieve their mobile phone if they had forgotten it.
- 23 per cent of Aussies call or send SMS messages to their loved ones several times a day.
- 3 per cent send messages to wrong numbers to flirt with someone new.
- 10 per cent like to talk dirty on their mobile phones.
- 10 per cent of men think sending risque photos by mobile enhances their love life - only 5 per cent of women agree.
- 57 per cent think the trend has made society less courteous.
- 20 per cent of men and 14 per cent of women admit they can become so engrossed in mobile phone conversations they lose track of just how loud they are speaking.
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