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Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

Posted by timothy on from the because-they-don't-reliably-explode dept.

griffinn writes "Jakob Neilsen recently conducted a study comparing the perceived annoyance level of two commuters having a face-to-face conversation and one commuter talking on the mobile phone. Interestingly enough, subjects were also asked whether the ring tone is annoying, and people didn't find the ring to be particularly bad."

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  1. Mobile phones !! by $exyNerdie · · Score: 0, Troll


    Try this

  2. Re:Ringtones? by robotoverflow · · Score: 4, Troll

    Text messaging isn't useless when you want to tell someone something that can be said in a few words like "be there in 15" without having to engage in unimportant conversation and annoy people around you.

    To compare, how many people do you hear making calls to say something like "be there in 15", then keep talking for a solid 5 or 10 minutes? I get this all the time when i'm on the train and it bugs the crap out of me, even more so when it's a person sitting right next to me talking so loudly that I can hear their entire conversation though my headphones.

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