One factor that may be driving more people to wireless and mobile devices for news and information is an insatiable desire for more and more content – at least that’s what a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates.
According to the report, released this week, increasingly-available communications technologies – wireless and wired – has led to more reliance on the Internet, mobile systems and social networking sites as pools of content.
The report noted that 85 percent of adults in the U.S. use the Internet or cell phones to access content, send messages and participate in social networking activities. These people desktop computers, laptops, digital cameras, video cameras, Web cams, iPods or other MP3 players, cell phones and PDA/smartphones on a daily basis. Eight percent of these people admit relying on stationary and mobile tools to keep in touch, do their jobs, or just kick back and watch the latest mobile media feed.
Roughly 10 percent of the people polled regularly use their cell phones for communication, Internet surfing and video viewing. However, about 8% prefer their networking to be tethered and do not care for wireless devices or slow communications infrastructures to get their daily fix of information and connectivity.
The study included responses from 4,001 adults, aged 18 and older, which were surveyed via telephone last year (although it is not stated if any of these phones were mobile.
The burning question: Who was that single individual who pushed the respondent count over 4,000, and why did Pew stop there? If you are out there, send us a message (via a mobile deice, of course!)
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