Text Away

In the United States, text messaging is becoming ever more popular.Usage correlates with age: 63 percent of cell phone users ages 18-27 have used text messaging compared with 31 percent for ages 28-39 and 7 percent for those over 60. Text messages are quick and convinient and save people the time and hassle of actually talking on the phone. Corporate business is profiting off of this phone feature because they have commenced unsolicited commercial messages. This way they can sell their product and all the user has to do is type in several characters, and the cost is automatically placed on the phone bill. It is clever because it is so easy. These businesses have such a huge market because practically everybody has a cell phone these days. If one does not, they are falling behind the times quickly. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 28 percent of people who text message have received these commercial messages.Services also are available to receive news alerts such as weather and sports.The Pew study was based on a random telephone survey of 1,460 cell phone users January 13 to February 9. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. All I have to say is watch out, nobody is safe from text messaging!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/03/17/text.messaging.ap/index.html