So is this true? IS IT????

Men display mobile phones to find a date: UK study
By Tom Wilkinson on 13 November 2006

While peacocks display their plumage to attract a mate and rival stags lock horns, modern man is increasingly reaching for his mobile phone to impress the opposite sex, researchers in the UK revealed today.

Having the latest handset is as important as driving the right car, or wearing the correct designer labels for players in today's mating game, a study from Sheffield Hallam University has revealed.

Researchers observing men and women in restaurants, bars, coffee shops, shopping centres and pubs found the different sexes use their phones differently.

Men seemed to believe phones with gadgets such as video cameras, MP3 players or fast Internet links will make them more desirable to women.

The study, part of a two-year link-up with Virgin Mobile, also used focus groups and questionnaires and found that in social situations men actively display their phones and its capabilities in a bid to look important and popular.

While it was suggested that this is done primarily to attract females, it was also used to show off and gain status with other men in their peer group.

Dr Simeon Yates, Director of the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, said: "The first results reveal key differences in how men and women use their mobiles.

"We have found that men put their mobiles on show a great deal of the time when in public.

"One interpretation of this is that mobile phones are used as a vehicle to impress women and show off to other men."

Jo Baker, of Virgin Mobile, said: "We have always known that mobile phones play an important part of the mating and dating game.

"It's no massive surprise to know that their status has grown to that of a key pulling aid."

it is not really impressive
maybe it is to the clingy types who need men to call them in all situations and stuff. yknow
who knows.. maybe you should test it out for a week thumbscrew, and type up the findings?

hahahah maybe i should!

If you walk around with a work phone and personal phone at the same time, does that mean you can pick up two chicks at once?

aha yeah, probably
take out 7, you'll have a date each night of the week

i wonder what would happen if you went out with a fax machine, now that would be worth researching

i've noticed that guys do this
they're extremely obvious about it
i bet they think it will plant an idea in a girl's head for her to ask for his phone #
problem is, if thats the case and it were to work she would have to either interupt him or wait till he gets off the phone
so its really very stupid
not very impressive imo
and its equally ridiculous to compete w/ other guys that way
sometimes guys do the dumbest things
i like the comparisons that were made to wild animals
its so true
and they are just making asses out of themselves really

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