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A manager in a team meeting yesterday wanted to rally the troops at the mobile services company that I work for by giving figures on how popular text messaging has become. Maybe I shouldn't have told her about users in Europe. Then just today, another reminder showed up in the news:
"British mobile phone users send an average of 3.6 text messages and make 2.8 phone calls a day. Fifty-one percent of the 16,500 respondents sent at least six text messages a day but only 15 percent made six or more mobile phone calls in a day" (source).That's a lot of thumb action! Nothing compared to a colleague of mine. She sends an average of 3500 txts a day. And she has a marvelous story about txting in her sleep. No wonder she and I watched the Oscars together one year, all via txt.