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German Couples Prefer Internet, Cell Phones to Romance

by Tim Stevens on March 3, 2009 at 04:38 PM

German Couples Prefer Internet, Cell Phones to Romance

Remember when we indicated that half of women would rather spend time online than being intimate with their partners? Many of you reacted with disbelief and many of you agreed wholeheartedly. Regardless of your opinions on the subject, it seems that the sentiment is shared in Europe as well, with a survey of 20-something-year-old couples finding that 84-percent of them would rather break up with their current partner than break up with their Internet connection.

The study was conducted by a German Internet service provider named Bitkom, which found that survey respondents in the age bracket of 19 to 20 were far more enamored with their high-speed Internet connections than they were with their lovers. A whopping 97-percent of the 1,000 people polled said they'd prefer to keep their mobile phones than their partners, if given the chance.

That last statistic , we think, is a little bit sad, but given how attached we are to ours, it's not entirely surprising. [From: Reuters]

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