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ARTICLE: Offbeat News: Americans send 4.1 billion text messages daily
Yep, you read the title correctly - Americans send approximately 4.1 billion text messages on a daily basis. That works out to 14 text messages per day by every mobile phone user in the United States (keep in mind that this number is an average - the texting teenager is probably sending far more messages than the bank executive). In the past six months alone, mobile users in the United States have sent over 740 billion text messages. With numbers like those, we're on the way to passing 2008's record of one trillion text messages sent. I'm all for dissecting figures like this by using practical examples, so Yahoo! Tech writer Ben Patterson's math shocked me. Here's an excerpt: "An SMS has a maximum capacity of 160 characters, so let's say (for the sake of example) that your average text message is about 80 characters long. And let's assume that your average novel contains about 100,000 words, and each word has about five letters. So ... assuming all that (and keeping in mind that my math is a little shaky), we here in the States are writing the equivalent of about 656,000 books—all via SMS—every 24 hours. At that rate, we could match the entire catalog of the entire New York Public Library system (which holds about 20.4 million books) in a little over a month."Other facts from the CTIA study included:
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wow just purely wrote great!! this is very informative and its pretty amazing to think that the numbers are that high!
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hahaha I'm one of them LOL
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Re: ARTICLE: Offbeat News: Americans send 4.1 billion text messages daily
I sent over 7000 messages in one month alone, I am a big contributor, ROTFLMFAO
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Re: ARTICLE: Offbeat News: Americans send 4.1 billion text messages daily
Wow so that make u an even bigger contributor. Geez, I have calmed down since then but I would rather text than talk.
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Re: ARTICLE: Offbeat News: Americans send 4.1 billion text messages daily
“ Originally Posted by mzlady26 ”Wow so that make u an even bigger contributor. Geez, I have calmed down since then but I would rather text than talk.
yup im the same way especially between school and work i rarely have time to talk on the phone and text is easier and can be done during both of the above with out disturbing anyone and most importantly on my own terms so i can get busy and repspond when im free. |
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Re ARTICLE Offbeat News Americans send 41 billion text messages daily
Yes I agree it's nice to be able to put people off without them knowing that you are putting them off, especially when you just want some quiet time. I love to text and if that was taken away from me I would not know how to communicate anymore. NO I WOULD NOT GO BACK TO A PAGER. LOL
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