Young people: A phone is for talking?

Reminds me of my Masters Thesis at Stanford back in '99.  Feels like an Ron ago.

http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2010/08/026558.htm

TEXTING GENERATION DOESN'T SHARE BOOMERS' TASTE FOR TALK

According to research byNielsen, nearly all age groups are spending less time talking on the phone, reports The Washington Post.

 Boomers in their mid-50s and early 60s are the only ones still talking.

The fall of the call is driven by 18- to 34-year-olds, whose average monthly voice minutes have plunged from about 1,200 to 900 in the past two years, according to research by Nielsen.

Texting among 18- to 24-year-olds has more than doubled in the same period, from an average of 600 messages a month two years ago to more than 1,400 texts a month, according to Nielsen.

Young people say they avoid voice calls because the immediacy of a phone call strips them of the control that they have over the arguably less-intimate pleasures of texting, e-mailing, Facebooking or tweeting. They even complain that phone calls are by their nature impolite, more of an interruption than the blip of an arriving text.

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