Text messages are used for personal, family, business and social purposes.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,635 |
18 Facts About Text messages
2.
Text messages can be used to interact with automated systems, for example, to order products or services from e-commerce websites, or to participate in online contests.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,636 |
3.
Almost every time, the messages contained fewer than 160 characters, thus giving the basis for the limit one could type via text messaging.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,637 |
4.
Text messages messaging has become so popular that advertising agencies and advertisers are now jumping into the text messaging business.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,638 |
5.
SMS Text messages are used in some countries as reminders of medical appointments.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,639 |
6.
SMS Text messages are thought to be more cost-effective, swifter to deliver, and more likely to receive a faster response than letters.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,640 |
7.
Outside the United States, premium short Text messages are increasingly being used for "real-world" services.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,641 |
8.
Text messages messaging is widely used in business settings; as well, it is used in many civil service and non-governmental organization workplaces.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,642 |
9.
Text messages messaging has affected students academically by creating an easier way to cheat on exams.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,643 |
10.
For example, in one study, the number of irrelevant text messages sent and received during a lecture covering the topic of developmental psychology was related to students' memory of the lecture.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,644 |
11.
Text messages messaging has been a subject of interest for police forces around the world.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,645 |
12.
Not only were text messages circulating in the Sydney area but in other states as well .
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,646 |
13.
Text messages messaging has been used to turn down other political leaders.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,647 |
14.
Where Text messages could be saved to a phone indefinitely, patient information could be subject to theft or loss, and could be seen by other unauthorized persons.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,648 |
15.
In SMiShing, users receive SMS Text messages posing to be from a company, enticing users to phone premium-rate numbers or reply with personal information.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,649 |
16.
The contents of common SMS Text messages are known to the network operator's systems and personnel.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,650 |
17.
Text messages's accomplishments were first in the World Records Academy and later followed up by Ripley's Believe It Or Not 2010: Seeing Is Believing.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,651 |
18.
Text messages has been acknowledged by The Universal Records Database for the most text messages in a single month; however, this has since been broken twice and as of 2010 was listed as 566607 messages by Fred Lindgren.
| FactSnippet No. 1,314,652 |