Brits stereotyped by app popularity chart

Caution. Sheep shearing in progress.

Following the links that lead eventually to the long and creepy promotional video from GSMA Mobile Metrics, I'm glad I'm resident in a small market that's unlikely to be mined for this kind of information in the near future. Tinfoil hat owners in the UK (the lucky world premier recipients of such close scrutiny) may want to pay as much attention to hiding their phone's browser trail as they do to that of their PC...

arse to mouth traffic

Just had horrible flashbacks to watching The Human Centipede... thanks for that.

Yahoo! Stocks?????!?

Definitely a pre-installed app - who would be daft enough to invest in stocks i this economy!

This reminds me

When I went to college - long long ago*, I found an extra subject in my timetable - Sociolinguistics.

Apparently, we Brits talk about the weather with strangers so that we can size up the other guy. It is something we all have common experience of and we make some (sometimes dodgy) conclusions about the other guy based on his accent, vocabulary speech style and so on.

I think we still do this and are adding in more personal analysis by seeing the other parties smartphone and adding conclusions about it as well.

I feel a thesis coming on...

(* Oh yes, what was the course? Civil Engineering. I am sure someone will see a connection there. I never have.)

When thinking of our British friends...

I am always reminded of the time I was telling my sister that I hadn't realized that her friend was gay. She replied that he was not, he was British. From then on I always make sure that when I am about to make a generalization about someones sexual orientation I am always sure to check myself and ask "Is he British?"