22 Facts About Text messaging

Text messaging messages are used for personal, family, business and social purposes.

SMS messaging was used for the first time on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK, used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis, who was at a party in Newbury, Berkshire, which had been organized to celebrate the event.

Text messaging has become so popular that advertising agencies and advertisers are now jumping into the text messaging business.

Research suggests that Internet-based mobile Text messaging will have grown to equal the popularity of SMS in 2013, with nearly 10 trillion messages being sent through each technology.

Recently, premium Text messaging companies have come under fire from consumer groups due to a large number of consumers racking up huge phone bills.

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Text messaging is widely used in business settings; as well, it is used in many civil service and non-governmental organization workplaces.

However, short Text messaging has been largely rendered obsolete by the prevalence of mobile Internet e-mail, which can be sent to and received from any e-mail address, mobile or otherwise.

Text messaging will become a key revenue driver for mobile network operators in Africa over the next couple of years.

Today, text messaging is already slowly gaining influence in the African market.

Also, in September 2009, a multi-country campaign in Africa used text messaging to expose stock-outs of essential medicines at public health facilities and put pressure on governments to address the issue.

Advent of text messaging made possible new forms of interaction that were not possible before.

Research has proven that text messaging is somehow making the social distances larger and could be ruining verbal communication skills for many people.

The use of text messaging has changed the way that people talk and write essays, some believing it to be harmful.

Text messaging has affected students academically by creating an easier way to cheat on exams.

Text messaging has been a subject of interest for police forces around the world.

SMS Text messaging drew a crowd to Cronulla Beach in Sydney resulting in the 2005 Cronulla riots.

In Hong Kong, government officials find that text messaging helps socially because they can send multiple texts to the community.

American campaigns find that text messaging is a much easier, cheaper way of getting to the voters than the door-to-door approach.

Text messaging has been used to turn down other political leaders.

In 2005, text messaging generated nearly 70 billion dollars in revenue, as reported by Gartner, industry analysts, three times as much as Hollywood box office sales in 2005.

Text messaging's accomplishments were first in the World Records Academy and later followed up by Ripley's Believe It Or Not 2010: Seeing Is Believing.

Text messaging 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.