A strange question? Well, a recent survey (commissioned by www.rightmobilephone.co.uk) was carried out on over 3000 British people, looking into the emotional side effects of having a mobile phone and came out with some truly fascinating results.
It's no secret that the mobile phone seems to have pushed our trusty alarm clocks aside and taken their place on our nightstands. But of the 3,138 people surveyed, 71% who use their favourite song on their pone to help them wake up every day, said they felt happier when waking than when they used a standard alarm clock or no alarm at all (probably because if they didn't use an alarm, they had overslept and were late for work, so not in a good mood anyway :-) )
The mobile has become so ingrained in our every day life that just 1 in 15 people said they could go the day without using their mobile phone at some point.
Four in five of the respondents said that not receiving a reply to a text message impacted negatively on their mood, whilst 41% said a day without a text message made them feel unpopular and lonely. The humble text message, or even the lack of it, has the power to change our mood. We may be talking to people face-to-face all day, but if our mobile doesn't make that familiar beep, it can make us feel isolated.
Only 9% of people said they'd actually laughed out loud at anything they'd ever been sent by text, despite 61% saying that the popular texting acronym "LOL" was part of their regular texting vocabulary.
18% of people have pretended to receive a phone call or text message (even when it's idle, we still crave the feeling we get when we use our phone).
Not one of the 3,138 people surveyed admitted to actually "rolling over the floor laughing", nor "laughing their asses off".
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