Fun Facts about Communication
- About Telephones:According to the General Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, the typical American spends an average of 8,760 hours of his or her life speaking on the telephone every year.
- About Telephones: There are more telephones than people in Washington. D.C.
- About Telephones: According to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, there are 24.5 telephone calls made for every 100 people in the entire world.
- About Newspaper: The average person in America spends fifty-two minutes each day reading the newspaper. This means that in a seventy year lifetime ( this is subtracting the first fifteen years as nonnewspaper reading time), the normal person spends a little less than two years, about 687 days of his or her life reading the paper
- The first emoticon is commonly credited to Kevin Mackenzie in 1979, but was a rather simple -) and didn’t really look like a face
- In every hour that one listens to the radio in America, one hears approximately 11,000 spoken words