By Jordan Snyder

The relationship between a person’s age (minimum 15 years) and the number of various ways a person uses mobile phones in everyday life is indirect.

Older generations utilize mobile phones to communicate by making phone calls more often than via text messages while younger generations utilize mobile phones by sending text messages more often than making phone calls.

Survey 20 male and female individuals of varying ages in the Ballston Common Mall in Arlington, VA on ten statements regarding the use of mobile phones in every day life utilizing the Likert scale.

Statements included the frequency of mobile phone use for s, games, text messaging, phone calls, social media and four other functions.

While acknowledging small sample size, the sum of uses by generation generally went down for older respondents. The widest range of mobile phone use was in the year old demographic.

Age

The survey also found that respondents over 45 used their mobile phones to make phone calls every day while using them to send and receive text messages less. Respondents under 35 used their movile phones to send and receive text messages more than to make phone calls.

In conclusion, both hypotheses were found to be true in general, but the sample size was too small to draw any firm conclusions. The group that utilizes the most functions of mobile phones is the year old demographic and the group that uses the least functions is the year old demographic.