Women, Hispanics, African Americans Use the Most Cell Phone Minutes, Says Nielsen Study
So women are more chatty than men!!
A recent study has revealed that women do text and talk more than men. Also guilty of being highly textually-active? Hispanic and African American people.
A recent study by Nielsen looked at a year of phone bills from 60,000 people and discovered that women, Hispanics and African Americans text and talk the most out of everybody. Nielsen reports that African-Americans use the most voice minutes – on average over 1,300 per month. The next in line for the title of 'most chatty' are Hispanics, with 826 minutes a month. Asians and Pacific Islanders use 692 minutes on average, while white people use roughly 647 minutes per month.
Looking at it from a male vs. female angle, women are much more talkative than men, talking 22 percent more (monthly averages are 856.3 minutes to men’s 666.7). We text more too, sending an average of 601 text messages each month compared to the 447 men send.
I thought 601 messages seemed like a lot, but it's nothing compared to how much American teenagers text. Nielsen's study found that the average teen sends or receives 2,779 texts in a month. This number falls by about half when you look at the 18-24-year-old age bracket (1,299 messages per month), and again cuts by another 50 percent when you look at the 25-34-year-old bracket (591).
Interestingly, your location also factors into how much you talk. Nielsen says those in the South are more talkative.
How much do you text and talk each month? Let us know in the comments below!
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Yeah they aren't as sexy as Americana girls, so they need to talk their way in. Well at least they are clever in that way.
Last time I had my texts counted it came to 5000 (total) incoming and outgoing.
Wait, women + Hispanics + African Americans use the most cell phone minutes. Than only leaves white males on the other side, no? The way the data is arranged in a confusing manner in my opinion.
The data is arranged in a confusing manner*
On top of that 60,000 people is not very many people compared to how many cell phone users there are.
This study is total BS. Its the same argument used to shows blacks and hispanics in as bad light for years. Per capita /yea right
This study is total BS. Its the same argument used to shows blacks and hispanics in as bad light for years. Per capita /yea right
I don't see how this shows African Americans and Hispanics in a bad light, regardless of how accurate it may or may not be. Racism (and sexism) rears its ugly head anywhere because of its baseless nature. How often one uses his or her cell phone is not a source of hate -- the one doing the hating based on such information is.
Sounds like every interesting, and LOUD conference call to me.
I'm an average American male teenager, and within 3 days on being on our SPrint Everything Data plan I sent 600 some texts... hehe. I'm not that high anymore though, I was just very happy about the unlimited texting for awhile xD
Shockingly, I find my cell phone use way under the above-mentioned stats. On average (ballpark), I probably use 250 odd some minutes and 400 texts a month. Then again, I'm a 25 YO guy who doesn't like to chit chat unless it's important.
I am not surprised about the first two- Women and Hispanics, spending the most minutes on a cell, but the last one surprised me, because I don't see many African Americans using a cell phone at my school, or even own one, though it could be because my school has less than 5% blacks.
umm... just curious on what this 'study' is supposed to prove? that black women talk too much?
this study is ******** retarded.
umm... just curious on what this 'study' is supposed to prove? that black women talk too much?this study is ******* retarded.
They are just interesting facts. Settle down.
Us hispanic and black men are texting all your beautiful white women: BEWARE!!!!!
Dark skinned, hispanic women must use a TON then
Hmm, possible bad judgment it seems this group of people portray. No wonder that empty suit in the white house targeted them.
I know one thing is true :
" Women generally do talk more than men"
no matter which race they are.
I have a supervisory position (more like "foreman" or "lead") in the Middle East with 8 people in 4 job sites. Between 4 other similar teams, higher headquarters and coordinating with the customer, I talk less than 2 hours a month on the cell phone. And I generate less than 50 texts a month. I do generate a fair amount of email, though.
Personally, I spend several hours a month chatting with family and friends in the States with my VOIP Vonage system.
I figure my communications patterns are fairly atypical because of my age and ex-pat working status.
I only text when I/the person I want to communicate with is in a situation where it's impossible to speak.
Interesting facts i can use to tell my boss she talks too much.
I read that headline as "Real Americans Use the Least Cell Phone Minutes, Says Nielsen Study"
I read that headline as "Real Americans Use the Least Cell Phone Minutes, Says Nielsen Study"
That's either really good satire OR someone is a closet racist
60000 people is a decent sample size imo, regardless of the fact that there are millions of cell phone users.
Over 2500 texts for the average teen is pretty high imo. I have only approached the 2500 text mark twice. My average is about 1050 texts/month sent.
yep, stupid ppl like to talk about bullshit.
Guess i better get on the phone so i can catch up.
It's because they're the most bored, and probably have the least going on.
These people that text 2200 per month cant have a job right. I mean you would be on your phone 24-7. If I employeed you your butt would be gone in no time.
I've never understood the fascination with "texting". Not only is it more time consuming and limiting than making a phone call, but it generally costs extra per month to use it.
And don't get me started on seeing people with their eyes on their texts and not on the road. Texing while driving should carry the same consequence as DUI/DWI (a bit off topic, but non the less).
if u don't text it means your too old and your obvious generation gap is clear
Women talk more than men? They needed a study for this?
"African-Americans" "Hispanics" "Asians and Pacific Islanders" and then "WHITE PEOPLE". How about "Caucasians" or "European-Americans" since we started following the technical trend in the beginning of the paragraph.
if u don't text it means your too old and your obvious generation gap is clear
And if you text too much, you can't spell anything or use proper grammar or sentence structure. You failed in all three cases in one sentence. Wow.