African-Americans talk, text more on cellphones than any other ethnic group

According to a new analysis of cellphone usage by The Nielsen Company, African-Americans spend more time on average talking and texting than any other ethnic group. The voice and text results are compiled from one year (April 2009-March 2010) of mobile usage data gathered by Nielsen, which analyzes the cellphone bills of more than 60,000 mobile subscribers each month in the United States.

Nielsen found that African-Americans use on average more than 1,300 voice minutes a month, compared to the next most talkative segment, Hispanics, which talk on average 826 minutes a month. Asian/Pacific Islanders logged on average 692 talk minutes a month, followed by Whites, who use approximately 647 voice minutes a month.

Black consumers sent and received on average 780 SMS text messages per month, more than any other group. Hispanics averaged 767 text messages. Whites were third with a monthly average of 566 messages, followed by Asian/Pacific islanders with 384 texts.

The Nielsen analysis also found that women outranked men (856 vs. 666) for minutes spent talking on cellphones. Likewise women led in text messages over men, with 601 vs. 447.

While teens 18-24 text more that adults 25-34, cellphone voice usage is quite close (981 voice minutes for 18-24 and 952 minutes a month for those 25-34 years old.)

Source: The Nielsen Company

 

I wouldn't doubt it...

just coming off my own personal observations, i can agree with that..

some of these chickenhead joints stay gobbling into a headset on the bus.

 

Yeah, I read this shit last week. I'm wondering why the study was so important.

 

Maybe they will use the info to market cell service??

 

I call bullshit. I date mostly young white women and they text all fucking day long and their cell phones are attached to their face at all times. This is one time when I gotta say blacks ain't the culprits.

 

Yeah, most likely.






Boost Mobile tried to market towards blacks with that "Where you at?" bullshit. It may be because of the Boondocks, but I can picture some black Harvard muthafucka pitching that shit, graffiti font and all. He wanted to "avoid the monosyllabic demographic" because "big words confuse or viewers".

 

lol hell yeah boost marketed towards blacks

u know the shit has to be ghetto for us to like it

 

Ronald McDonald is down with the bitches and hoes. I guess he is down with blacks. He has a perm and is dressed like a West Coast Popper from fucking 1970. :roll:

 

How did they gather these results? I don't remember filling out a form asking what race I am when I purchased my celly.

 

I was thinking samething. I wouldn't be shock if this is true though.

 

Isn't Nielson the one that calls you? I am sure I have been called before by them.

 

I just find it weird how they know what race someone is from their cell phones - lets say if they hadn't called you? You know?

 

I don't think it is simply from the cell phone. I think they are gathering it from other sources.

 

I just find some of these surveys to be laughable. I mean who gives a shit who texts more? I'm not Black and I stay texting....

 

I think andrea is right. How could 13% of the usa population out talk the 80%?
The women out talking men is believable.

 

I agree, it's hard to take anything seriously when it's Black vs. White in so far as numbers are concerned. I mean if they were to take the ratio of the amount of something in regards to total of the population of said race, then okay, but as a whole, like you asked, how could they outnumber White folks?

 

The people selling cell phones and other communication devices.

 

But wouldn't that be in sales as a whole, not segregated or shall I say compartmentalized, racially?

 

Bingo! Go to the head of the class...

 

Somehow, in the midst of it all, this smacks of the words of George Orwell ringing true..

Big Brother Is Watching




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