What is a text message?
Text messages is a term for short communication made through mobile phones. It uses what is called short messages, so it is often called SMS. Sometimes it is also referred to as TXTING, using shortcuts common in messages as the way of solving short character limits and often bulky interfaces. The first commercial text messages took place in 1991, sent from the computer to the headphone. After these initial texts, this has not been caught for some time and in the middle of the 90s it has barely been used throughout Europe. Until 2000, the service was used with a certain intermittent frequency in Europe and Asia, although it was rarely used in the United States, and less than 20 billion text messages were sent worldwide.
By 2001, text messages were caught and began to spread like a fire, more than 250 billion.E. Young users seemed to be particularly attracted to it as a quick and easy way to stay in constant contact. Until 2003 it was expectedO that more than half of all mobile phones use texts. It is now the most popular service used with mobile phones and has become accessories of modern life.
Text messages are generally charged as another service of mobile phone providers, either based on text, with an average of $ 0.10 by US dollars, or as part of the package of the volume with a monthly fee, which will somewhat reduce the cost of text. The service represents a billion dollars for companies with a mobile phone, and because they use a very small bandwidth relative to telephone conversations, profit margins are large.
Not only in recent years has been used text messages for communication between people, but in recent years many groups have jumped mad. For example, political campaigns used it as a way to keep their fans at the speed of the events as they happen. Protesters and organizersI used text messages as a way to stay in conjunction, mobilize large groups of people in real time. Different businesses allow users to log in to updates via text or receive accounts in this way. It can be used to stay at the speed of stocks, sports scores and any other small bits of data that are changing rapidly.
Because most phones have small keys and in the case of numerical keyboards, it may be necessary to press the buttons several times to find the right letter, the whole slang shortcuts and shortcuts develop around text messages. Replacing words with numbers, closing words to individual letters, and even replacing seemingly girls strings for the whole sentences forms a world of shortcuts of text messages. Examples include phrases such as "C U L8R" that means we will see you later , "r u OK?" You mean you are fine and "143" mean i love you , where each number represents the number of letters in the word it replaces.