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People who鈥檝e grown up with mobile phones tend to use their thumbs when
others would use their fingers. Today鈥檚 twenty-somethings have become so adept
at tapping out text messages on their mobiles that they now use their thumbs
instead of their fingers for tasks such as ringing doorbells, pushing buttons
and pointing.

Sadie Plant, who founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick
University, discovered this new behaviour when studying the effect of mobile
phones on people鈥檚 behaviour. Over the course of six months, she collected data
on hundreds of mobile phone users in nine cities around the world, including
Beijing, Chicago, London and Tokyo.

The thumb-users are mostly under 25, and have grown up with mobiles. 鈥淭here
are obviously lots of different ways to use a mobile phone, but it seems that,
having experimented with every possible method, this generation has settled on
the thumb as the most dexterous digit,鈥� says Plant.

鈥淭his increase in prominence of the thumb is basically a case of people
evolving with technology,鈥� she says. However, it may not be solely a consequence
of using mobile phones, she says. It may also be a result of playing on machines
such as the GameBoy handheld.

The mobile is fast becoming an essential prop in the social life of
20-year-olds. It has even become part of their mating display with young men
trying to impress women with the advanced technology of their phones, says
Plant.