J03

J03

Survey


As a college student is meant to explore while their time here, experiments with things such as alcohol and as everyone knows when someone consumes too much alcohol in a such period of time, things become blurry and people loose and miss place things that they would not normally loose in their daily activities. One of the most important objects in a persons life is their phone. It has all of their contacts and source of internet when you forgot you laptop and you have most boring lecture to sit through. You're Blackberry or iPhone is definately like a part of your life and it is devistasting when you went downtown last thursday and left it in the taxi you took home or flushed it down in the Taco Bell toilet (gross, noway i would put my hand in there).

So I took a survey just to see how many students really have this same problem.

The followign are the questions I asked..

-How many phones in 1 year does a college student (you) go trough?
-When are you more likely to loosed your phone? (like certain time of year or quarter)
-How much money do you have to spend on phone's in 1 year?
-Does drinking have a part in the phone loss?
-Do you or your parents have to have to pay for the phone loss?

Out of 20 students, The amount of phone's they have to get during 1 year.

Basically what i have discovered is that, out of 20 college students that were entered in the survey loose at least 1 phone in a 1 year time period. The most volnerable time to loose your phone is during the Summer time (more time on your hands to drink? maybe). With 10 guys and 10 girls it seems that guys spend more money on their phone replacements than girls do. With all of the amounts added up between the 20 came out to be a little over $4500.00, in a year, which is just replacing their lost phone. Finally, it seems that mom and dad have had enough of us loosing our mobile's and do not fork over as much cash as most think. Over 75% of students have to pay for their own new phones. Which adverages out to be about $250 a phone.

I am simply amazed with this small survey that shocking took me by suprise that we college students are being so unresponsible with our most presious devices and in the end have to spend a ton of money that we clearly do not have to replace them. I would like to see what would happen with a much larger survey and more options. Or possibly what phone designers could do to maybe make phones easier to track down or more durable to our fast pace lives.