http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/technology/22drill.html
For Teenagers, Messaging on the Go
Instant messaging was widely commercialized in the 1990s. It still had 26 percent more frequent users in 2007, but by 2008, texting and instant messaging were nearly tied. Today, texting is definitively more popular, according to Mediamark, which asked a nationally representative sample of teenagers whether they had used either form of communication in the last 30 days.Sending text messages from cellphones has shot past instant messaging from computers as a way for teens to communicate, according to Mediamark Research and Intelligence, a market research company. “This is just another example of the way that we’re all getting more mobile,” said Anne Marie Kelly, an executive with Mediamark.
Although the survey did not ask teenagers why they preferred text messaging, other research has linked its rise to providers’ sale of cheap packages of several hundred messages. The profusion of phones with QWERTY keyboards may also play a role.
Although the survey did not ask teenagers why they preferred text messaging, other research has linked its rise to providers’ sale of cheap packages of several hundred messages. The profusion of phones with QWERTY keyboards may also play a role.
the article is explaining that instant messaging and text messaging was side by side and then as of 2010 instant messaging has been taken over by text messaging by teenagers. i personaly agree with the point that they made about cell phone companies luring teengagers in with their texting bundles and this causing a total disregard for any other form of instant messaging phone calls and even face to face person interactions.
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