Released: April 04, 2006

Poll: Cellphones are annoying but invaluable

Source: Associated Press [USA Today]

Even cellphone users get irritated at others who yak on their portables about their personal business in public. An AP-AOL-Pew poll found the offended don’t think they are among the callers who get on other people’s nerves.

Most cell users find their phones very useful, with half keeping them on all the time.

But almost nine in 10 say they encounter others using those phones in an annoying way. Only 8% of cell users acknowledge their own use of cellphones is sometimes rude.

“People tend to talk louder on the phone. That’s quite irritating,” said Pamela Sorenson, a 57-year-old resident of Bellingham, Wash. “I often hear young people, mostly college age, talking about dating and personal things I don’t want to know about.”

More than two-thirds of cellphone users say it would be hard to give up their portable, according to the poll, one of the most extensive news surveys of cellphone users yet.

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