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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.
Calling on a phone: 8.3 Reaching for a phone: 7.1 Sending or receiving text messages: 3.9 Reaching for an object other than a phone: 8.0 Looking at a roadside object (rubbernecking) 3.9 Eating: 3.0 Interaction with radio (or head unit) 1.0
Texting while driving attracted interest in the media after several highly publicized car crashes were caused by texting drivers, including a May 2009 incident involving a Boston tram driver who crashed while texting his girlfriend. [47] Texting was blamed in the 2008 Chatsworth train collision which killed 25 passengers. Investigations ...
Some government agencies encourage a “text first, talk second” approach to keep phone lines open for emergency calls. Plus, sending a text uses less battery than a phone call. Plus, sending a ...
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!"
The SMS standard has been hugely popular worldwide as a method of text communication: by the end of 2010, it was the most widely used data application with an estimated 3.5 billion active users, or about 80% of all mobile phone subscribers. [10]
According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, 48 states ban texting while driving, 24 banned all handheld devices while driving and 37 states plus Washington, D.C., ban all cell phone use ...