So if your a smartphone user, and let’s face it – we all are here at PPCGeeks! It appears that a recent survey finds that most smartphone users hate talking on the phone. It says we prefer other means of communication, like text, email, or IM clients.
Phone calls are apparently “too time-consuming or intrusive,” according to survey respondents, with nine out of ten people preferring texting. Half of the respondents had negative feelings toward calling and voicemail, with attitudes ranging from finding calls too intrusive to outright hatred of voicemail.
Now what I find funny is that we have described what we do now adays in communication as “cloudtalk”. This is where we use social media (Facebook, Google+, etc) to talk to people instead of voice.
“What we’re seeing at CloudTalk is that people love to talk, as long as it doesn’t require our immediate attention,” said CloudTalk CEO David Hayden. “We can respond on our own time and see the entire conversation thread at a glance — it’s just more convenient.”
Now if I may add my own insight to this little study…Cell Phone have become very sophisticated, in the fact that we can watch entire movies thanks to Fox Studios, stream music, watch netflix, even edit photos like a pro. It would seem to me that if we were in the middle of any of these activities we would be very unhappy to stop to talk to someone like our boss, or parents, or the wonderful, lovely husband/wife (or dreaded however you look at them). Now we can even play Xbox Live games on our phones – thanks Windows Phone 7! But even still in the middle of Ilomilo, or Hydro Thunder Go, the last thing I want to do is mess up to answer a call…
So you tell us PPCG is this survey correct? Do 9 out of 10 smartphone users have voicemail, and voice calls? If so why do you dislike (or Hate) the power of voice? Tell us below!
Source: Mobileda