95.4 billion texts / 250 million cell phone users = 382 texts per user in 6 months = 64 texts per user per month, or ~2 per day. 2 texts per day is hardly anything. I send a message, I get a reply, done texting for the day. Will someone think of the kids and the hundreds of texts they send per day.
Think of IM and how many hundreds of messages sent and received in a single conversation. Move this to a phone and you can see that it isn't all that much.
You're correct Iain. It should be each cell phone user sends 2 texts per day.
This is still really low. I would hardly say "Americans are finally warming up en masse to text messaging as a totally valid means of communicating." The breakdown of figures was to show that while 95.4 billion is very large in volume, when shown how low in volume it is per user, it still shows there is along way to go before text messaging en masse is used for having conversations.
It's a start though - and once your crappy carriers get their heads out their arses and stop charging you to receive texts, I think it'll really take off.
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95.4 billion texts / 250 million cell phone users = 382 texts per user in 6 months = 64 texts per user per month, or ~2 per day. 2 texts per day is hardly anything. I send a message, I get a reply, done texting for the day. Will someone think of the kids and the hundreds of texts they send per day.
Think of IM and how many hundreds of messages sent and received in a single conversation. Move this to a phone and you can see that it isn't all that much.
Er, not quite - your figures say 2 texts sent per phone user per day, so the one you receive doesn't count towards your total.
You're correct Iain. It should be each cell phone user sends 2 texts per day.
This is still really low. I would hardly say "Americans are finally warming up en masse to text messaging as a totally valid means of communicating." The breakdown of figures was to show that while 95.4 billion is very large in volume, when shown how low in volume it is per user, it still shows there is along way to go before text messaging en masse is used for having conversations.
It's a start though - and once your crappy carriers get their heads out their arses and stop charging you to receive texts, I think it'll really take off.