[img_r]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/06/c1main.retrevo.chart.from.jpg[/img_r]It may sound ridiculous, but a few blogs today are considering this question:
Is it appropriate to send or receive text messages during sex?
The chatter is a spin-off from a 1,000-person survey, published in March, which found about one in 10 people younger than 25 say that they would not mind being "interrupted by an electronic message" during sex.
Among people older than 25, 6 percent said they would be fine with that inconvenience, according to the online survey by Retrevo, a website that reviews consumer electronics.
The survey reports a 4 percent error margin.
About a quarter of people in the under-25 group said they wouldn't mind getting a text message or e-mail while using the restroom (the chart actually says "on the John," but can we all agree to boycott that phrase?). And half of the younger people said they would be OK with a digital intrusion into a meal.
Older people were less fond of this all-the-time messaging. Sixty-two percent of people older than 25 said they don't like being interrupted by digital communications in general.
Maybe there's a serious conversation to be had somewhere in these salacious details.
Do you find electronic messages intruding in on your life?
Would you text during dinner with a friend? Are there any limits?
As food for thought, here's an interesting video debate about some of these issues between NYT blogger Nick Bilton and Diane Sawyer, the ABC anchor.