Texting Booming: Up 80-Percent Over Past Year
Filed under: Cell Phones Like it or not, it’s pretty routine these days for teens to text in class , for AARP members to playfully sext each other, and even for narcissistic fugitives to MMS better mugshots of themselves to the cops. Yep, texting is a wonderful, sometimes dangerous, thing — leapfrogging at a pace that even analysts couldn’t have predicted a year or two ago. According to The New York Times , texting spiked 80-percent from June 2008 to June 2009. Apparently, the reason has less to do with the number of texting-enabled phones (only a 7.3-percent increase), and more to do with those popular “bucket plans” — monthly services that give users hundreds, thousands, or unlimited texts per month. We guess not having to worry about being charged for every text message encourages cell phone users to communicate more freely — way more freely. Continue reading Texting Booming: Up 80-Percent Over Past Year Texting Booming: Up 80-Percent Over Past Year originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
