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My partner and I started long-distance and we communicated over phone calls. I realized I prefer them to text messages and started calling friends.
As of 2007, text messaging was the most widely used mobile data service, with 74% of all mobile phone users worldwide, or 2.4 billion out of 3.3 billion phone subscribers, being active users of the Short Message Service at the end of 2007. In countries such as Finland, Sweden, and Norway, over 85% of the population used SMS.
“There’s only so long you can avoid calling people, because it really is more efficient [and] effective for a lot of things,” O’Sullivan tells Yahoo Life via email. Show comments Advertisement
However, not all text messaging systems use SMS, and some notable alternative implementations of the concept include J-Phone's SkyMail and NTT Docomo's Short Mail, both in Japan. Email messaging from phones, as popularized by NTT Docomo's i-mode and the RIM BlackBerry , also typically uses standard mail protocols such as SMTP over TCP/IP .
One thing I want people to know about bad texters is that we don't hate you — we aren't bad at texting because we don't want to talk to you, we just don't want to text!"
In 2009 in the US, there was a reported 5,474 people killed by distracted drivers. Of those, 995 were considered to be killed by drivers distracted by cell phones. The report does not state whether this under- or overrepresents the level of cell phone use amongst drivers, and whether there is a causal relationship. [13]
If you do choose to text, start by letting the person know that your text is related to the phone call. Turn your phone off for important conversations and moments. You want to be present for ...
Real-time text programs date at least to the 1970s, with the talk program on the DEC PDP-11, which remains in use on Unix systems. Beam Messenger, a mobile app offering real-time text messaging, was released in 2014. [3] Certain real-time text applications have a feature that allows the real-time text to be "turned off", for temporary purposes.