Ever received a text saying the sender-friend just shaved and is ready waiting online? Been there unfortunately, receiving what is now dubbed as sext or a sexy text message. Latest survey in the UK shows that iPhone users are most prone to sexting than mobile phone owners of BlackBerry and Samsung.
The survey, which was conducted by YouGov but commissioned by insurance2go.co.uk, elaborates that 30 percent of iPhone users were found to have texted an explicit message or sexted, while Blackberry users only account for 21 percent and Samsung for 17 percent.
"It does seem that iPhone owners are certainly a little more risque when it comes to their mobile communications," says Duncan Spencer, who is managing director of the insurance2go.co.uk.
One case sample of sexts in the study mistakenly sent to the wrong person published by Sky News:
"I sent a picture of my private parts to my mother-in-law instead of my wife. When I saw her the next day for lunch she didn't mention a thing - and hasn't to this day!" it says.
Crude and rude text messages seem to be an emerging trend in the UK, the survey also reveals.
Nineteen percent of all smartphone owners admitted to having sent a naughty photo or message to the wrong person, of which four percent were sent mistakenly to the mother-in-law.
"The moral of the story is that if you are going to send cheeky messages 'check before you sext', otherwise you might find your private photo going viral. There are some things that can never be unseen," Spencer explains.
The survey indicates that other smartphone users somehow followed such advice and became more cautious in terms of the intimate side of relationships. For instance, merely seven percent of Samsung smartphone owners sent a sext to the wrong hands, and similarly, seven percent of HTC smartphone users sent an explicit photo message to the wrong person.
It appears some iPhone owners have a bad rap for using their phones in sex and relationship matters, as the survey also says 12 percent of iPhone mobile owners broke up with their partners through text message, a figure said to twice the national average.
On the other hand, 13 percent of HTC smartphone owners were dumped through text message, unfortunately making them the unluckiest mobile sector in love.
Other reports also tell that the figures in the survey are not entirely surprising with so many mobile apps in dating and relationship growing by the minute on Google Play and the App Store, and that it only goes to show how text messaging isn't a passé just yet, but the results of such activity weren't desirable.
