Typically most people think that females talk and text more on their cell phones than males. In September of 2006, a survey given to sixteen to eighteen year olds, sixty-six percent considered texting the most important feature on their cell phone. A study done in Korea of 1,639 people suggested that they were obsessive in their cell phone use. Woman showed withdrawal symptoms, coercion, and deviation. Females showed a higher dependency on their cell phones than males. In another article from www.dailymail.co.uk a study found that woman talk three times as much as males. The study found on average women speak about 20,000 words each day compared to males who averaged 13,000 words per day. This can be apply to cell phone usage.
According to a pervious study done at Oakland University study, seventeen year old males on average texted 3.5 times per day compared to females who texted 4.5 times per day. Of the actual study surveyed at Oakland University of fifteen males and females the both averaged between 5 to 10 calls per day with an average of five to fifteen minutes talked.
In an article on WILLisms.com stated men talk on mobile phones 35% more often than women. On average men make use of 571 airtime minutes a month compared to 424 for women. In addition, the research showed that men and women use mobile phones for different purposes. Approximately 82% of women use their phones to talk to family and friends, compared to 62% of men, and men spend twice as much time using their mobile phones for business.
In an article from New.com seventy percent of teens talk on there cell phones. Sixty percent of teen send at least one text message every day. In another article from spr.sagepub.com stated that 64% of males text at least once a day compared to females who text 68% of the time at least once a day.
According to a recent father’s day survey on gizmodo.com of one thousand people, it found that men talk more than woman on their cell phones. It found men averaged 458 minutes a month while women use 453 minutes during the same month.
Between our group Jeff Kobak talks 120 minutes per month on his cell phone and send or receive about six hundred text messages per month. The man of the group, Sam DeJoy, estimates 210 minutes on his cell phone. Sam sends an average of 550 texts in a month. The boss of the group, Ross, talks on his cell phone an average of 160 minutes a month. Ross sends an average of 900 texts a month.