http://andreaitis.com/2010/05/14/huge-social-shift-cellphones-now-used-more-for-data-than-calls/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://andreaitis.com/2010/05/14/huge-social-shift-cellphones-now-used-more-for-data-than-calls/#comment-345 Sat, 15 May 2010 12:11:42 +0000 http://trueslant.com/andreaitis/?p=3111#comment-345 There are really separate issues between the traditional home phone and the mobile computer we carry that happens to allow voice communications. They’re just pigeonholed as voice-centered communication devices because the cell phone carrier monopolies have locked us into their 1990s business model.
Mobile voice communications include the ability to gather information and postpone final decisionmaking until the moment of execution- no need to make plans anymore! The research is showing that 2/3 of the time the calls are about what the callers are doing or planning to do, not about where they are.
The shift to texting frees up the need to interrupt others (and be interrupted) by making conversations asynchronous, often again about what plans are in progress. A common pattern seems to involve prior planning by text, and then synchronizing plans by voice. Which is far more efficient use of time, but it steals revenue away from the providers. I could *almost* write a dissertation on the subject.

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