Men Are From SMS, Women Are From Voice

There have been lots of studies that have attempted to detail just how men and women use mobile phones differently, so it comes as little surprise that they have fairly different views of text messaging, too. Men "primarily use messaging as a tool for managing their relationships" while women "view text as another way to foster emotional interaction" -- but the article seems to try to paint text messages as some blight on modern romance. It's not hard to imagine similar sentiments being expressed when telephones started to impinge on the domain of love letters, but, as far as I can tell, we've all managed to keep things going. It's little wonder that people use new communications technologies to communicate, whether it's within the scope of romance or outside it. Those technologies are neither good nor bad on their own, it's a question of how people use them.

Leave a Comment..


If you liked this post, you may also be interested in...
 

Add Your Comment

Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? Register here
Get Techdirt’s Daily Email
Save me a cookie
  • Note: A CRLF will be replaced by a break tag (<br>), all other allowable HTML will remain intact
  • Allowed HTML Tags: <b> <i> <a> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <hr> <tt>


A word from our Sponsors...
Follow Techdirt
Flattr rss rss
From the Techdirt Archive...
A word from our Sponsors...

Close

Email This