African Americans Text And Talk More With Their Mobiles Than Anyone Else
According to The Nielson Company after completing a 12 month study, black people use more voice minutes and send more text messages than any other race.
Text Messages By Race
According to this chart African Americans send nearly 800 texts per month, compared with the lowest scoring, Asians, they ‘only’ send upto 400 texts per month – 50% less.
Voice Minutes Used By Race
With this chart African Americans spend over 1300 minutes per month talking on their cell phones compared with Whites at just over 600 minutes.
Women vs Men
It was also discovered with the help of The Nielson Study that women spend 22% more time talking on their cells than men and send an average of 600 texts per month compared to 450 for men. Now we knew this, right?
What would be really interesting to learn would be to find out why African Americans use their mobiles so much more than other races – anyone got any theories?
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
