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Text messages 'changing relationships'
调查显示：英国年轻人短信传情成时尚
Mobile phone text messages are changing the way people approach romantic relationships, according to a survey published in the British newspaper The Times.
More than half of mobile phone users aged 18 to 24 have sent or received an invitation to a date via text message, while a similar number have exchanged ually-explicit messages, the study by the London School of Economics showed.
Just fifty-three per cent agreed that sending a flirtatious message to someone while in a relationship was a form of cheating.
"It acts as a kind of subliminal zone, an exclusive forum where the normal social rules are suspended," said Kate Fox, director of the Social Issues Research Centre.
"People often say things in texts which they would never say in 'real life'."
"When it comes to dating, a text gives you that chance to compose your thoughts, rather than having to speak spontaneously in a phone call with that person," she said.
The survey also found that 54 percent of women under 25 used their mobile phone in public to deter people from approaching them.
British mobile phone users send an average of 3.6 text messages and make 2.8 phone calls a day. Fifty-one percent of the 16,500 respondents sent at least six text messages a day but only 15 percent made six or more mobile phone calls in a day.
Vocabulary:
text message: 短信
subliminal: 潜意识的
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发表于 2016-8-12 16:25:42