Could mobile social networks sound death knell for text messaging?
Irish mobile-phone users spend on average 45 minutes a day accessing social-networking sites via their mobiles, a survey by 3 Ireland reveals.
The research found that 25–34-year-old men say that having access to social-networking sites is a must for them on their mobile.
Popular social-networking sites Facebook and Bebo accounted for about 43pc of customer usage, with a clear division for Facebook as the site of choice for pay-monthly customers and Bebo the preference for the younger pre-pay market.
The results also highlighted the dominance of search-engine sites such as Google and Yahoo! as the destination for more than 50pc of traffic.
