世論 What Japan Thinks

About the only proper punctuation mark I use in my mobile emails is a question mark, and this recent survey from Point On Research, as reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile phone email found that I’m in the majority in my smiley habits.

Demographics

On the first of September 2009 exactly 800 members of the Point On Research monitor group completed a mobile phone-based private questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were male, 20.0% in their teens, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, and 20.0% in their fifties.

I don’t really use much decomail, not even the animated emoji, as my phone’s a bit old and the interface for accessing them is pretty awkward, so I stick with emoji most of the time.

Oh, and if you need some kaomoji for your phone or PC, please visit my huge collection of Japanese emoticons and smilies.

Research results

Q1: How often do you use mobile phone email? (Sample size=800)

Every day (to SQs)	85.9%
Few times a week (to SQs)	5.5%
Just a few times when needed (to SQs)	8.0%
Almost never	0.5%
Never	0.1%

Q1SQ1: About how many emails do you send and receive per day? (Sample size=795)

One to five	18.9%
Six to ten	21.6%
Eleven to twenty	18.7%
Twenty-one to thirty	13.6%
Thirty-one to fifty	9.8%
Fifty-one to one hundred	9.3%
More than one hundred	8.1%

Q1SQ2: How often do you use emoji, kaomoji or decomail in your emails? (Sample size=795)

Use in almost every mail (to SQ3)	30.8%
Often use (to SQ3)	22.6%
Sometimes use (to SQ3)	22.6%
Don’t really use	13.3%
Never use	10.6%

Q1SQ3: Which do you use the most? (Sample size=605)

Emoji – icons	64.6%
Kaomoji – smilies	20.3%
Decomail – animations, HTML email	7.3%
About the same amount of each	4.3%
No particular pattern	3.5%