Facebook and email better than sex?
According to a study done in the UK by Sparkler for Microsoft Advertising, almost all young men use the Internet every day, and it is the technology they are most attached to. The report has some juicy statistics to lead to some disturbing conclusions:
“The Internet is the technology 57% of men between 18 and 44 are most attached to, closely followed by mobile phones with 49%, and TV with 46%.
38% of men are so addicted to Internet that they have surfed the web to check emails and socialise on Facebook, while in bed with their partner. Almost all young males in UK (99%) go online daily with half of them using mobile devices to access the web.
In fact, the Internet is so important for today’s men, that it is often the first thing they think about when they wake up: 25% of young men admitted to checking their email and 18% to looking at social networking sites on their mobile phone before they get out of bed in the morning. Some 94% use email at least once per day, compared with 60% that use a social network such as Facebook.
80% of the men aged between 18 and 44 say that they would be lost without internet access.”
Now think of the biggest threat this trend might bring. If it continues to grow, couples would have less sex, and by extension, less babies, and soon enough, the authorities would probably be calling out for “fair use” of the Internet in order to keep the cycle of procreation in balance. Gosh, the human population may eventually dwindle to nothing if every sexually eligible male (minus the celibate ones) spends more and more time on the Internet. Start talking about the techie population – in addition to the greying ones – dear policymakers.
By the way, if you think that this trend is a load of bologna, there is now an iPhone app, written by Chris Alvares – a US computer science student who has previously developed a number of iPhone quiz apps including WikiQuiz, Four Squared and MusicApp – that measures one’s competence doing the horizontal dance. Hey, since you’re on the web so much, might as well use that unputdownable device in your palm to raise your “productivity”, don’t you think?
Great thinking, genius. This is one “third party” in the bed that would be a welcome addition for the preoccupied man – once you’re done, you can jump back into cyberspace right away, knowing that you’ve just did it at the most optimal moment.
(Source: Social Times)
In response to the study quoted: I wouldn’t be so quick to conclude that individuals surfing the Net whilst in bed with their partners are necessarily less or uninterested in sex! If you’ve been sharing the same bed with the same woman for the past three years (and thus been rejected every time you propositioned her for sex for the last past 2.5 years), and she’s more interested in opening her girlie magazines than she is in undoing your pants, is it really surprising that you too find something else to do whilst in bed?
I say, do the same study, but with their partners hot and ready for action. Then, if they still reject their bedfellow in favour of responding to their latest lolcat email, I’ll start stocking up on my End Of The World ™ kit.