Almost 200,000 SMSs Sent Every Second - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Retro4Life · 10-19-2010, 09:11 PM

http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa...icles/14/54/14

Geneva (19 October ,2010),(pti).

The popularity of text messaging has leapt three-fold in the past three years, with almost 200,000 text messages sent every second, the UN telecommunications agency said today.

A total of 1.8 trillion SMSs were sent in 2007, but in 2010, the number sent has jumped to 6.1 trillion, said the International Telecommunication Union.

This translates to revenues of 14,000 dollars (10,050 euros) every second and 812,000 dollars every minute, said the agency.

Users in the Philippines and the United States were among the most prolific, accounting for 35 percent of all text messages sent in 2009.

MickeyMac · 10-20-2010, 10:16 AM

I remember when people actually talked to one another, person to person, face to face.

80sTrivia · 10-23-2010, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MickeyMac

I remember when people actually talked to one another, person to person, face to face.

Me, too. I guess people today want a technological object to separate them from other people...

clj2 · 10-24-2010, 02:12 AM

I guess I'm a minority, but I'd rather talk or email

I have used SMS though.

Retro4Life · 10-24-2010, 03:45 AM

I almost never use text messaging. It's cold, impersonal and horribly limiting. Voice inflection and body language are so key to understanding what someone else is saying and those are both totally lost with texting.

Plus it makes you a horrible speller.

10-19-2010, 09:11 PM	#1
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10-24-2010, 03:45 AM	#5
Retro4Life Accept No Substitutes Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 04, 2009 Location: IL Posts: 6,708	I almost never use text messaging. It's cold, impersonal and horribly limiting. Voice inflection and body language are so key to understanding what someone else is saying and those are both totally lost with texting. Plus it makes you a horrible speller.