You know: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc. HELLO? Oh, sorry, I was just sending an email to the person sitting next to me.

And there are lots of different ways to message each other now. The same study found that 49% of teens were happy emailing, texting or instant messaging on apps such as WhatsApp with someone who was in the same room as them. A 2017 Ofcom survey found that only 15% of 16- to 24-year-olds consider phone calls the most important method of communication.īut they’re always on their phones! Well, yes, but messaging each other. So, silly question, how are young people supposed to know when people are calling them if they can’t hear the phone ringing? Well, they don’t want people to call them. You must know that one – made famous by a man named Dom Joly … had a giant phone on his head? Trigger Happy TV? Who? How about this one then: dadadada dadadada dadadadada daa ( Nokia Gran Vals ringtone, circa 1994, if you don’t read music). No wonder people don’t want ringtones any more. That was the Crazy Frog from the early 00s, one of the most downloaded ringtones in the history of ringtones.

A survey by the tech analyst Sensor Tower has shown that the number of ringtone downloads slumped by almost a quarter in the UK between 20 – from 4.6m to 3.7m.īut what about mine? It goes a ring ding ding ding ding a ring ding ding dingdemgdemg a ring ding ding ding ding ring ding baa-baa … SHHH! What on earth is that racket? How am I supposed to hear you? Put me on vibrate!

Good ringtones for kids