95 percent of Spaniards prefer texting to talking

A mobile industry survey has revealed that the vast majority of Spaniards are no longer the talkative and up-close communicators they were once known to be.
The ‘V report on Apps in Spain’, released yesterday by mobile industry event The App Date, is based on a survey of a thousand mobile phone users.
95.3 per cent reported using messaging apps at least once a day, more often than they made calls. 38.1 percent said they sent messages a  number of times each day.
WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, was the app of choice for 98.5 percent of users, well ahead of its rivals Skype (51.6 percent), Telegram (36.1 percent), Facebook Messenger (34.4 percent) or Line (31.7 per cent). The heaviest users were 24-to-34 year olds and 65 per cent of all users were aged between 25 and 44. Despite the popularity of apps, the average number of daily downloads in Spain has fallen from 4 million to 3.8 million in the last year.