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Originally Posted by Dravyk

Just looked on the web for some recent SMS in the US usage figures.

From April 2005, found a thread on a message board. Guy asks if SMS is popular in "your country". People around the world wondered if this guy was serious and started spouting figures about how widespread it is, in Ireland, India, Japan, you name it.

They they start to all say "what is with you yanks that you haven't adopted it".

Guy replies about two articles. One was Canada, 6.3 out of 10 do not use text messaging. In some provinces, like Vancouver it's 7.1 out of 10 with cellphones do not use it.

He then quotes another survey saying in the US, 9 out of 10 do not use it.

Will it ever catch on here? Don't know. It seriously seems stupid to us to start typing with our thumbs crap like "Dude, sup?" "Nutin" "Ok, l8r". But obviously the rest of the world seems enthralled with it.

Hmm. Does that include Australia, I wonder?

http://digital-lifestyles.info/displ...ion=cm&id=2398

http://www.text.it/mediacentre/defau...?intPageID=132