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Gendered Text Messages - Not Surprising Really

There is a lot of research concerning how women's and men's verbal conversations are gendered. We've also looked at textual conversations - email and list-servs, we've looked at blogs and blog comments - now we are looking at cell/mobile phones. Not surprisingly, we are seeing that men and women communicate differently in their text messages.

Mobile Phones open new front in the sex war HERE

"Messages between men are shorter than those between women, and text messages from men get longer when they are texting women. There are also significant differences in the content of messages men and women exchanged, men being much more likely to use sarcasm, sexual humour and swearing. Women are more likely to show support and affection. They also rarely swear, use little sarcasm, often put themselves down -– something men never do in their texts."

Men write short, sarcastic text HERE

"The researchers also found that people used text messaging to switch between "identities", such as men who were out with their friends preferring to send their partners text messages rather than talking to them."

Interesting - but we need to think about the implications of what this all means. Why is it important - thoughts?

posted by Netwoman @ 5:29 PM