Right, here goes, I’m on a posting frenzy, today, to make up for me not being in yesterday!
Figures released today by the Mobile Data Association show that the humble text message shows no signs of going out of fashion, according to the Guardian. We still love texts, basically. In fact, we love them so much, that as a nation, we sent a staggering 57 billion text messages last year, with December showing a huge rate of 5,000 texts sent per second.
In other words, we sent 40% more texts last year than we did in 2006 so, far from going out of fashion, we’re using texts more and more and more and more.
The intriguing thing is that we’re also, as a nation, starting to get behind the idea of photo messaging (448 million sent in 2007), mobile internet on a phone (17 million people used the internet on their phones in December alone), and full on mobile broadband on a laptop. Reading between the lines, what that realistically implies is that people are living their lives more and more mobile. Not just the internet, but sending piccies, and staying in touch with texts, and I reckon the Guardian nails it when they talk about reasons why.
Cheapness and easiness. Texts are dirt cheap and dead easy. Photo messages are getting cheaper and are also easy. Internet is getting cheaper, and is easy.
Mostly cheapness, though, because let’s face it, if it was too dear, no-one’d use it. Here’s to it continuing for a long time to come!
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