We Love SMS
It comes as to no surprise; the human society is addicted to text messaging.
Chatting, instant messaging, email; these various forms of digital communication are quite immersive and people often find themselves suddenly spending hours and hours using these channels of communication. They are fun and more importantly, addictive. When BlackBerry made email easy to access, the term Crackberry was coined to refer to those who became email addicts.
But more than these forms of communication, one GSM-based technology has been lording over most other forms of getting in touch: the SMS.
As of 2009, residents of the UK send about 11 million messages every hour. That’s over 200 million messages per day, and to total the entire number of messages sent last year, 96.8 billion. Oh yes, we love to write, send and receive SMS messages. Messaging from one mobile phone to another can have so many reasons and that is the reason why today’s society relies on it so much.
SMS allows you to send information instantly without having to spend on an expensive voice call. It also allows you to send detailed information such as a task list or an address (information you would not want to lose to miscommunication in a voice call).
Is this a bad thing for us? Not really. The Mobile Data Association compiled the message usage rates of the UK from information submitted by various network operators. There is completely nothing wrong with the numbers. In fact, one can even say that it is expected. The only real reason we are all so astounded is because we have yet to fully accept the fact that mobile phones have now become crucial to our lives.
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