| Text messaging has evolved into becoming one of | | | | The charges for a single SMS vary according to the |
| the fastest, easiest and more common ways of | | | | service provider. Despite the fact that there used to |
| communicating with other people on a daily basis. | | | | be no extra charge for texting when it first became |
| Only a couple of years ago, mobile phones were not | | | | available, the high number of people who used |
| widely used and those who used it were mostly | | | | texting called attention to the trend when they |
| businessmen who had to endure carrying the big | | | | started clogging the networks. Big businesses saw |
| bulky models. Now, almost everyone has his or her | | | | this as an opportunity to expand their empire by |
| own mobile phone, and leaving the house without | | | | including texting in their list of services and started |
| your phone is considered a major mistake. | | | | promoting the trend. |
| Carrying a mobile phone is now considered not just | | | | As the texting trend grew, it evolved into its own |
| ordinary but necessary to be able to communicate | | | | sub culture. The trend spread out to other |
| with friends and others. Aside from just making | | | | generations beyond the realm of teenyboppers. |
| phone calls, mobiles can now be used for so much | | | | People started using SMS to create jokes and |
| more, like taking pictures, playing music, playing | | | | graphics. Forwarded messages like chain emails were |
| games, sending e-mails, surfing the internet, and | | | | created and hoaxes, pranks, and even scams were |
| sending SMS messages. Short Message Sending, also | | | | also formulated on SMS. |
| known as texting, is when someone uses the mobile | | | | Texting has evolved in several ways since then. One |
| phone to send short messages to another mobile | | | | is the advent of MMS, or Multimedia Message |
| phone user over the telephone network. | | | | Sending, which lets users send audio, video and image |
| The popularity of texting first spread rapidly in Asia, | | | | files with simple text messages. These allow greater |
| where high school teenagers started using text | | | | personalization of the individual text messages. Even |
| messaging as a more cost effective way of | | | | simple SMS were further personalized. The smiley |
| communication other than phone calls. As the trend | | | | faces and emoticons that can be added to a text |
| grew, texting started to evolve into its own | | | | message were enhanced, allowing people to insert |
| language, giving birth to abbreviations, slang and even | | | | more emotion to their messages. |
| driving the market to create phone models that are | | | | Another mark of evolution in texting is its steady |
| more suited towards texting. | | | | commercialization. Big companies have started to use |
| It is easy to start texting as long as the mobile | | | | text messages as a way to have their |
| phone being used is capable of sending them. All the | | | | advertisements reach the consumer. Those with |
| user needs to do is go to the proper menu where a | | | | phones will no doubt receive at least one unsolicited |
| message may be created or composed. Then the | | | | advertisement on their phone a day. |
| user needs to create a message by tapping out the | | | | There is no question that texting has come a long |
| letters and symbols on the keypad. Once the | | | | way from being a cheap alternative to calling. It is |
| message has been created, the user just needs to | | | | now the easiest way to connect to other people |
| select the receiver of the message and send it. | | | | constantly and consistently throughout the day. |