What Does Your Smartphone Say About You?

- Saturday, March 03 2012 @ 08:15 am
- Contributed by: ElyseRomano
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A new survey says your smartphone may reveal details about your dating behavior.
"Thanks to social networking and online dating, our love lives and our digital lives have never been more intertwined," said Match.com in a release about the survey, which asked more than 1,000 Canadian singles about their love lives. 75% said their love lives have benefited from email and texting. so what did this study learn about single smartphone users?
BlackBerry users are big on liquid courage - they are most likely to consume alcohol on a first date (72%). Kimberley Moffit, a Toronto-based psychotherapist and spokesperson for Match.com, suggests that the increased imbibing may be a result of the high stress, business-related jobs that many BlackBerry users have.
iPhone users are the office romantics. They are most likely to date a co-worker or someone else from the workplace - nearly 25% of iPhone owners say they have dated a co-worker in the last five years.
BlackBerry users also have a romantic side - 67% say they have experienced love at first sight.
Android users are the most active online daters. 72% say they've tried looking for love online, compared to 58% of iPhone uers and 50% of BlackBerry owners.
Android phone users are also the most likely to have one-night stands (55%). BlackBerry (47.6%) and iPhone (50%) users are less inclined to have one-night-only hook ups.
And last but not least, Android users are also most likely to go all the way on a first date. 62% are up for sex on a first date, as are 57% of iPhone users and 48% of BlackBerry users.
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After a date, Android and BlackBerry users prefer to wait 2-3 days before getting in touch again, while iPhone users tend reach out the next day. Moffit believes that Apple fans may be quicker to get in contact because they tend to be younger and more tech-savvy that other smartphone users. "If they are in the younger demographic they might be more comfortable with technology and more likely to put themselves out there via text message," she said.
Broken down, it looks like iPhone users are hopeless romantics, Android users are the seducers and seductresses of the smartphone world, and BlackBerry users are...well...drunkards.
Bonus smartphone fact: According to a study conducted by 11mark, Android users are most likely to use their phones while on the john. Yes, you heard that right - 87% of Android owners say they are guilty of "multi-tasking" from the restroom. Blackberry users came in second at 84%, and iPhone users bring up the rear at 77%.
For more information about the dating site which brought you this survey you can check out our Match.com review.