While it’s clearly sefl-serving it’s also consistent with other third party data: a poll recently taken by ChaCha among US teens (n=1,500) asserts that they prefer SMS as a mode of communication to Facebook. The survey asked:
What’s your favorite way to communicate?
- Mobile Text — 67.5%
- Mobile Call/Voice — 9.2%
- Facebook — 8.8%
- Instant Message — 2.9%
- Email — 0.3%
- Other — 11.2% (largest % for “other” for this question was “in person”)
If any of these items were taken away, what would you miss the most?
- Mobile Phone — 60.7%
- Computer — 17.8%
- Radio — 11%
- TV — 10.6%
The following is from Pew’s recent “Teens, Cell Phones and Texting” survey:
