"I group all my best girlfriends together, the people I don't want to talk to together, work contacts together, and family together." "I group people," said Natasha Khan, a 26-year-old from McLean, Virginia.
Many mobile phone users set specific tones to specific people so that the tones act as audible caller IDs.
Safety council urges ban on cell phone use while drivingįor some, one ringtone simply isn't enough. "I could tell that this particular ringtone just drove him up the wall. "The ringtone drove him crazy and he tried to be tactful but I knew that was directed specifically to me," Kaplan said. The co-worker sent a mass e-mail to the office, telling everyone to keep their cell phones on silent. Kaplan said one of his co-workers wasn't exactly pleased with the ringtone. I think that people really connect with that movie," Kaplan said.īut that's not always the case. I notice that when people hear my phone ring they get amused. Kaplan, of New York, changed his ringtones often before finally settling on the theme song from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." Using a ringtone creator application on Facebook, King said he also makes his own ringtones by downloading sound files onto his computer and editing them to be shorter and louder or softer.ĭonald Kaplan found a perfect fit with his ringtone choice. I don't know anyone else who has that ringtone." I think probably says that I'm nonconventional and it says I lean a little more liberal. "It's fake news people saying 'Barack Obama has won the election,' " he said. King said he gets a kick out of annoying his mostly Republican co-workers with his Barack Obama ringtones, even playing them over the intercom at the electrical supply warehouse where he works. "I find regular ringtones kind of dull, so I wanted something exciting," said Gordy King, a 51-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah. "Live Your Life" (featuring Rihanna), T.I. "My Life Would Suck Without You," Kelly Clarksonĩ. "Dead and Gone" (featuring Justin Timberlake), T.I.ĥ. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," BeyonceĤ. Ipsos research shows that ringtones are the most common type of mobile music content downloaded by users, compared to full-length songs and ringback tones, tones that replace the typical ringing signal heard by the caller.Ģ. #RINGTONE JUST AN OLD FASHION LOVE SONG DOWNLOAD#
Ringtones seem to have become vital fashion statements, a way for people to showcase their personalities and even their feelings about who is calling.Īccording to a 2008 study by Ipsos MediaCT, a marketing research company, approximately one-third of mobile phone users download ringtones, and about 40 percent of users change their ringtones frequently.
These days, ringtones do much more than alert mobile phone users of a call. Basically, I think the song relates to me and and our relationship," Harness said. The 34-year-old native of Jackson County, Georgia, set her ringtone to Sugarland's "All I Wanna Do," a song that, she says, perfectly expresses the way she feels about him.
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