Some men (in black) with their favorite gadget.Every year, AskMen.com runs a special male-behavior study, polling more than 50,000 readers to get answers to one basic question: Who and what is “the modern man?” Some of the results are just as you (and a whole lot of women who will roll their eyes when they hear this) might expect. Yes, 69% of men polled have fantasized about a girlfriend’s friend and more than half of the pollsters (53%) prefer breasts in a C cup.

As a gadget site, obviously the material we’re most interested in has to do with men and tech. As a gadget blogger I’m exposed to an inordinate number of tech savvy geeks who live in a universe of daily technolust. But what of today’s modern man? How do your everyday friends use technology?

Let’s start with the easy questions, shall we? First off:

Q. Which screen do you spend the most time in front of?
75% – My computer monitor
18% – My TV screen
07% – My phone

No big surprise here – I know I log enormous amounts of time in front of a computer screen and I would expect about the same from the general, 18-35 demographic I’d guess got polled.

From here the stats get increasingly curmudgeonly. I’ll spare you a little commentary and list our next few entries as they appear. Continue reading »