You must have heard of some on the weirdest surveys now-a-days, some like Android users have Sex on their first Date, iOS users love their office colleague Or more people use Android on the toilet than iPhone users, absolutely absurd surveys with equally crazy outcomes.
Here is one of those kind of survey which happened in Canada by Rogers and Angus Reid. They survey 1,403 Canadians that owned a smartphone/tablet and asked them various question. They intention was to see if people passions for gadgets and social media hurt the human interaction or improved it.
Here are some insane outcomes, Check out
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18-24 year olds spend 2 hours 30 minutes every day using technology to communicate to their boyfriend/girlfriend.
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48% of those surveyed have been asked out over the phone.
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18% of those surveyed admitted to being dumped over the phone.
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12% of those surveyed have been dumped via text message
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25% say the use of technology to stay connected keeps their relationship exciting.
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Quebecers were the highest with 31% agreeing with the above statement
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31% of 18-24 year olds surveyed said, they’ve been asked out via a social networking (Facebook)
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60% of 25-34 year olds surveyed have been asked out over the phone
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27% of 18-24 year olds think it is fine to ask someone out on a first date through a text message
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40% of 18-24 year olds say they’ve been asked out in a text message
Smartphones and Social Networks are the most popular way to meet new people, Have you asked out some one or been dumped via social media or text? Is this the ‘new thing’ to do. Is the IN thing? Whatever happened to those flirty times, personal contact, exchanging phone numbers on Crushed papers? Sending roses et. al.
via: MobileSyrup