Posted on 04/30/2012 1:46:33 PM PDT by traumer
Technology-addicts regularly go 48 hours without speaking to anyone in person, a study has found.
A significant three per cent of adults fall into a so-called digitally dominant group which will mainly communicate via text, email or video calls.
It suggests technology from smartphones to iPads is helping to kill off physical and social interaction among those obsessed with the devices.
According to researchers for digital marketing agency dnx, adults in the digitally dominant group are four times less likely to go to a shop than average.
Most Britons use digital technology but a majority do so in combination with real life interaction, such as talking to friends in person, said dnx. The researchers questioned 1,000 adults for the survey.
Around 16 per cent of Britons are digitally dominant of whom 19 per cent are so ruled by technology they can go for two days without any verbal interaction said dnx.
In other words, the only time they speak is if it is via technology but not just computers and phones.
This group prefers to use an automatic barrier than a ticket collector at a train station or buy their lunch from a vending machine, for instance. They rarely go out without both a mobile phone and a tablet computer, buy their food via the internet and are four times less likely to go to a shop than average.
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Their vocabulary also suffers..... LOL !
I loved it. And if I wanted a conversation the dogs were always there.
/johnny
48 hours?
Pikers.
I suppose that could describe their romantic life too...
48 hours? BFD. I’ve gone a week without encountering anyone and then only to go to the grocery store.
..and no people, chatting on message boards, Facebook, or commenting on news articles does not count as ‘speaking to another human’. If you think it did, you need to unplug your computer for a week or more.
I think that 3% is not so significant. Just a thought.
2 out of 3 days, I dream about disappearing.
I wish.
“If I wanted a conversation the dogs were always there”.
Uh.... they didn’t talk back to your right?! /s
/johnny
Maybe I am missing the point but IMO we communicate more now than we would have in the past... all due to the electronic gadgets, the Internet, etc.
That includes family, friends and complete strangers.
In my situation, it hasn’t replaced it, it has enhanced it.
Maybe I am missing the point but IMO we communicate more now than we would have in the past... all due to the electronic gadgets, the Internet, etc.
That includes family, friends and complete strangers.
In my situation, it hasn’t replaced it, it has enhanced it.
Before the age of modern communitcation, people could go days, weeks, months without speaking to another person.
See my tagline. ;-P
This would explain a lot of angry FR site participants.........maybe they just need a kitten or puppy to relax them when they run out of beer.
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