I spend a lot of time in airports. Which means I can’t avoid listening to other travelers chatting away on their cell phones – particularly the louder types who pace the lounge while reminding their interlocutor that they were in Vancouver yesterday and will be in New York tomorrow. And there’s the special times when I’m standing at the urinals next to a guy talking on his Bluetooth-enabled phone or, worse, holding his phone with one hand while maneuvering his other device and zipper with the other.
So I chuckled when I saw recent data from an Ipsos-Reid
survey conducted in October 2008 asking Canadians “if your mobile device were
to ring in the middle of making love, would you answer it?” I
suddenly had
visions of the same guy wearing his Bluetooth device and nothing else taking an
incoming call (excuse the pun). Seven percent of Canadians said ‘yes”. As high
as 10% of residents in BC said they would answer the call and there were no
differences between those in households with kids or without kids.
The same survey also asked the question “What do you come in contact with most during your day - your mobile device or your significant other?” A majority of Canadians (66%) said they are more in contact with their significant other than their mobile device. That number goes up to 83% in Quebec – a significant difference with the rest of Canada.
What this survey doesn’t tell us is if the significant other is calling while they’re busy with another significant or less significant other… more on that in future posts.
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