Most people mostly use LINE chat app for chat
The headline reveals a rather obvious conclusion from a survey by Ceres Inc into LINE (an extremely popular chat app) usage, which was reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Over the 6th and 7th of February 2013 806 LINE users aged 16 or older competed a smartphone-based survey. More detailed demographics are not given, but the sample most likely came from users of the moppy web site.
I’ve never downloaded LINE myself, and in fact had never even used chat even casually until last week, when I got invited into a group chat on Google+ for smartphones. It’s been an ongoing discussion which I’ve been finding rather fun to participate in, and I can now understand the attraction of text chat services! However, due to me being a stingy git, I only take part when my train journey to and from work takes me past a public wi-fi point.
Note that stickers are basically clipart emoticons that you can paste into your chat; the Japanese term is “stamp”.
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