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Text-mania!
By Amy Wood
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I do a new segment on our new News Channel 7 show at 7pm called “What You’re Saying” but we may need to start calling it “What you’re texting”!
The new numbers reported by CNET reveal that the average American gets 357 texts a month. And then listen to this: the average american mobile user makes 204 phone calls a month.
Teenagers take that to a whole new level.
1,742 texts a month. Only 231 phone calls a month for our teens.
CNET puts some important perspective on SMS messages (short message service), explaining how it first got popular in Europe and Asia, because short texts were cheaper than calls. In fact in the Phillipines a text message costs less than a penny. One of my friends on Twitter Alllen Vallientcourt from Greer, messaged me saying: Valien @tvamy yup..I grew up in the Philippines and I can vouch that they txt like mad over there. You can even order pizza via txt msg
But CNET points out, it’s not so cheap in the U.S. The wireless industry’s trade association CTIA reveals over the past two years using texting without a package deal has gotten much more expensive. The cost is up 100 percent in two years and it can run you 20 cents a message. Unlimited texting costs about 20 dollars a month.
COMMENTS
it’s expensive unless you have a plan - which it’s not worth 20 extra dollars a month to me.
I am finally getting into the texting groove….however, you still need someone’s cell phone number to be able to text them, so I don’t think it will take the place of handwritten notes, emails, or just old fashioned face to face visits.
I have the plan. My son averages 2000 to 2500 texts a month. It’s the primary form of communication for teens, and I think it will take the place of most other forms of communication, which is unfortunate because it undermines spelling and grammar and nothing is more sentimental than a hand-written note you can keep forever.
I am the children’s minister at my church and children as young as 9 come in with their phones texting. This is getting out of hand. 13 or 14 years ago when I was a teen we didn’t have cell phones and we socialized just fine. The health fanatics are screaming obesity crisis in our young, but with things like cell phones and computers being used as babysitters, there is no wonder why this is happening! I thank God for our 20 acres in the country. My kids and I spend tons of time outside in nature (which is something far fetched for most children these days.) And when we want to communicate, we actually go see the person we want to talk to. I MISS THE MAYBERRY DAYS!!
I tex alot…I pay 5 cent a tex where a call I may pay 20cent a minute…So I use my tex more than calling really…We gots to stay in touch ...Use to be it wasnt like that..We had trust that little joy would be home at 4pm…Now a day you never know so we tex or call those little joys in our lifes We cant be with out a cell or a phone of some kind…
Whats next?
ANd in response to all of you who complain about being broke, not being able to afford gas, food, housing…
Yet you all still have to have your cell phone…Where are your priorities???
Text Mania is the other option for the East Los Angeles College students besides the book store in campus. I like text mania, because it offers most of the text book used in the class.
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Text Mania is the other option for the East Los Angeles College students besides the book store in campus. I like text mania, because it offers most of the text book used in the class.
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