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When Does Technolust Become An Addiction?

An anonymous reader writes "According to a CNet article, an incredible one in three people aged 16 to 24 in the UK would not give up their mobile phone for a million pounds. 'The phone-centric survey, called Mobile Life, was carried out across the UK and questioned 1,256 people aged 16 to 64 on a variety of topics ... So young people really like having a mobile phone and we all love buying gadgets. But before you dismiss this research as stating the bleeding obvious, think about this -- if someone had told you even ten years ago that people would be taking out second mortgages to buy flat screen TVs, would you have believed it?' Is this just the result of deliberately skewed marketing dressed up as research, or is this another indication of western culture's obsession with communication and technology? How much is too much tech?"

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  1. Huge penis failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. Re:These surveys are bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    true but the british are dumb anyway. infact half of the 1 out of the 3 that won't give their phones up is a homosexual man who needs his cell to know which public loo to meet his boyfriend in to get fucked up the ass.
     
    btw: the matrix, star wars and linux are all for faggots. filthy faggots sucking them dicks.

  3. Re:Quality of life vs. money by stewbacca · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone stupid enough to think their mobile phone is rewarding them with a rich and fulfilling social life doesn't deserve 1 million pounds.