More Texting Notes
After reading about the uses of text messaging to help care for AIDS patients in Africa and campaigning/protesting organization uses, I decided to look into how prevalent the use of text messaging actually is today.
I came across a UK site devoted to the expansion of text messaging complete with text statistics and various new uses of SMS technology.
The use of text messaging is extremely interesting. No longer just a form of entertainment for friend to friend communication, text messaging is now a critical component of campaign communication strategies. After Pope Benedict was voted in one of the first things he did was text message subscribers to Pope John Paul II's text messaging list.
Text messaging is now being used as a service for deaf people and is also being used in emergency management in areas where cellular phones do not have good service. Media Centre predicts that an estimated 30 billion text messages will be sent during 2005 and 70% of mobile phone users now text message on a daily basis.
I came across a UK site devoted to the expansion of text messaging complete with text statistics and various new uses of SMS technology.
The use of text messaging is extremely interesting. No longer just a form of entertainment for friend to friend communication, text messaging is now a critical component of campaign communication strategies. After Pope Benedict was voted in one of the first things he did was text message subscribers to Pope John Paul II's text messaging list.
Text messaging is now being used as a service for deaf people and is also being used in emergency management in areas where cellular phones do not have good service. Media Centre predicts that an estimated 30 billion text messages will be sent during 2005 and 70% of mobile phone users now text message on a daily basis.
