Are You Average?

[JennyMorgan]

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-02-22/mobile-phone-users-in-britain-receive-33-800-messages-a-year/

Amazing!

[Boatingman]

I am obviously not average 6 calls and 4 messages in last three days

 

Ray

[Markw]

Definitely under average for me.... & glad to be so....

 

[jeffbroadslover]

I'm glad I am below average....I don't have time to read almost 100 texts in one day never mind every day !

Jeff

[grendel]

mobile phone texts and calls, my last text 14th feb - that makes 5 this year - 2 of those were notifications of a successful top up, and a whole 7 phone calls.

[ranworthbreeze]

Texting I regard as a waste of time and does nothing to improve my temper, it would be OK I guess if mobiles had those big letters and numbers.

Regards

Alan

[JennyMorgan]

5 minutes ago, grendel said:

mobile phone texts and calls, my last text 14th feb - that makes 5 this year - 2 of those were notifications of a successful top up, and a whole 7 phone calls.

'Bout the same here so  with folk like you and me dragging down those averages it must then beggar belief as to what the top end users are sending and receiving, mind boggling!

[Aboattime]

I get a lot of my work through texts, except when we are moored at Horning ! Cant think why ?

[TheQ]

Never sent a text,  only ever recieve them from the phone company when I've used the phone.

Have only used a mobile phone maybe half a dozen times in my life.

There is a Mobile phone mast on the back of Horning sailing clubs race control box, and I believe another near the New Inn. But they I believe are Vodaphone...

[ExSurveyor]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Never sent a text,  only ever recieve them from the phone company when I've used the phone.

Have only used a mobile phone maybe half a dozen times in my life.

There is a Mobile phone mast on the back of Horning sailing clubs race control box, and I believe another near the New Inn. But they I believe are Vodaphone...

Ah,  but Norfolk still has telegrams,  who needs text messages. 

[grendel]

Ah but when you look back at the quay to see a boy on a red post office bicycle waving, you might not realise that he has a telegram for Tom about the twins.

[TheQ]

Semaphore, my dear chap, semaphore.

[johnb]

When we retired and moved house, we didn't connect a phone to the landline, therefore all communications are via mobiles and email. We get enough free minutes to be able to ring back to those on landlines, and get very few nuisance calls. I do text but would rather speak direct. We get 1500 "free" minutes and never use all of them, so I suppose about four calls at least each day, six texts in or out. Hundreds of unread emails on two accounts, I can't be bothered to deal with most, I can usually see the subject and decide from that whether it needs opening or not. Texting is also bad for me owing to my lack of typing skills, please see my occasional appearances of the forum quiz for examples!

[webntweb]

I'll let you know if I can find my mobile.

[HEM]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Semaphore, my dear chap, semaphore.

My mother used to do that - she was a WREN on the Mumbles (Swansea) during part of WWII.

[jeffbroadslover]

What always concerns me with text messages is that you have no guarantee that it has been received and read by the intended recipient.

It is much more reliable to actually talk to someone!

Jeff

[Simondo]

I'm average...Aahhh!

[JennyMorgan]

12 minutes ago, Simondo said:

I'm average...Aahhh!

Poor you! When do you find time to go boating? 

[Bound2Please]

Turn on your delivery reports then you can see delivered and when read

[marshman]

Ok - lets be controversial! As if......!!

I certainly could not be without my smart phone, although I am not up to "average" - quite!! How else do you keep up with your kids and grandkids? To be fair they tend to use Snapchat et all whereas I tend to use WhatsApp and messaging and I guess I get on average between 5/10 emails a day, all of which need attending to. The ones that don't, usually go to Junk anyway.

Now I don't profess to be up with technology at all, but some of you lot must be positively prehistoric - do your children /grandkids never contact you???

I am surprised that so many express surprise at that article - is it just the others don't want to stick their hand up?? How many of you still have a landline - how many of your children have such a thing??  Even in Norfolk??

[Chelsea14Ian]

Don't know  as such.Not many phone calls,but a fair number of texts and emails.My work is mobile therefore. I get lots of texts and emails.

[finny]

62 calls I have had today ..............it's no wonder iam deaf in one ear ?

 

slightly above average..eh 

 

finny 

[JohnK]

I’m with MM, couldn’t live without my smartphone.
Across four email accounts (some work, some not) I probably get two or three hundred emails a day, thirty or forty of those I need to read and I probably send a similar number. Plus the texts, Facebook, forum stuff etc.
Just to add to the buzzing I’m type one diabetic and have a sensor that alerts me via my smartphone if my blood sugar goes high or low.
Today I’ve been in a meeting most of the day and it will take at least an hour to catch up on what I’ve ignored (some work, some not).
I don’t find it intrusive, it’s just become a way of life.
A lot of people probably contact me electronically because I’m not very nice to talk to ☹️


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[Simondo]

2 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:

Poor you! When do you find time to go boating? 

Never at the moment!! just had a quick rekkie through all my comms today and I reckon its up close to 150...I'm beginning to loathe pixels

[Smoggy]

Sod that for a game of soldiers! PAYG and use about £12 a year and no landline, don't do faceache or twatter and have no desire to either.

I do spend too much time on the pc on forums though.