Cell Phones As "Mom-Avoidance Devices"
Cell phone executives are saying that tweens and teens push parents to adopt text messaging so they don’t have to talk “live” over the cell phone, according to CNET News.
“Teens are pushing their parents to go on mobile because they don’t really want to communicate with them directly,” Stephen Saiz, manager of consumer insight and strategy of the Walt Disney Internet Group’s North American mobile division, said on a panel of mobile executives at the YPulse 2008 National Mashup, according to the article.
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