Mobile phones make people more open

Reading mobile news in public places makes people talk to strangers more.

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Livescience reported that researchers at the University of Michigan in the US surveyed cell phone users to understand their communication trend in public. The results showed that the majority of study subjects were willing to talk to strangers after they read the news on the phone.

'We always think that the greater the frequency of mobile phone use in a community, the less people will interact with strangers, but it is not quite the case,' said Scott Campbell, a member of the group. study, speak.

Campbell explains that reading news on mobile phones motivates people to discuss new issues with people around them.

"Reading news on mobile phones makes people feel they have something to say to people who are not around. Social problems are something strangers might care about ," he said.

The team also found that people who are more likely to work on mobile phones talk to unfamiliar people in public than others.

However, if people use mobile phones to talk, not read the news, the number of times they start talking to strangers decreases.

Research by the University of Chicago is published in the scientific journal Human Communication Research.