11 Facts About Texting

Texting is used to communicate very brief messages, such as informing someone that you will be late or reminding a friend or colleague about a meeting.

Texting has provided a venue for participatory culture, allowing viewers to vote in online and TV polls, as well as receive information while they are on the move.

Texting has been shown to have had no effect or some positive effects on literacy.

Texting while driving leads to increased distraction behind the wheel and can lead to an increased risk of an accident.

Texting on a phone distracts participants, even when the texting task used is a relatively simple one.

Texting has been used on a number of occasions with the result of the gathering of large aggressive crowds.

Texting was used to coordinate gatherings during the 2009 Iranian election protests.

Texting has been linked as a secondary source in numerous traffic collisions, in which police investigations of mobile phone records have found that many drivers have lost control of their cars while attempting to send or retrieve a text message.

Texting etiquette refers to what is considered appropriate texting behaviour.

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

Texting 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.