Text Messaging

When Derek Jeter became the all-time Yankee hits leader on Sunday, his ex-manager Joe Torre said
 congratulations…by text message.
 
Jeter broke the long-standing hits record held by The Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig.  Gehrig held the Yankees hits record for 72 years.
“I communicated with him, I didn’t call him,” said Torre.  ”I texted him.  That’s his favorite thing.”
Jeter, [...]

A recent study by Ergonomist Ewa Gustafsson studied the mobile phone habits of 56 young adults who text message on a regular basis (several times daily). Her findings showed that half of the students reported problems with neck, arms or hands while the other half had no such symptoms.
Gustafsson states, “Considering how much we use [...]

Facebook has 4 times more mobile users this year than it did last year at this time with 65 million activeusers.
While Facebook doesn’t denote where that growth has come from, it is believed that it mirrors the international growth that Facebook has enjoyed in Europe and South America.
Facebook operates multiple mobile solutions worldwide including:
 

iPhone
Blackberry
m.Facebook.com - [...]

A text message voting program operated by mobile marketing site 84444.com has helped name Baseball’s Hottest Wife.
For the second year in a row, model Heidi DeRosa has been named Baseball’s Hottest Wife by Fantasy Baseball Dugout–a web site that reports on the popular pastime of fantasy baseball.
The web site used both online voting and text [...]

We’ve done a number of stories at the Text Message Blog about Sexting.  Why?  Well, we love text
messaging and we love sex! (lol)
Now, the word from China, which is an exploding market for cell phones and text messaging, is that you can land in jail if you are sexting there.
Chinese authorities are now monitoring SMS [...]

What is the primary tool you use for personal online communication?
This was the question posed by an Epsilon study of the online marketing landscape.
The results were revealing to text message enthusiasts in that 2% of North Americans use their computer mostly for sending SMS.  While this may seem like a lot, it pales in comparison [...]

This article, written by Bob Bentz, first appeared in Adotas.com.

 
The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died last week.
 
Now, that’s not news to anybody, but the way that we all found out about it may be.
 
You definitely remember exactly where you were and how you found out about 9-11, don’t you?  What were you doing when the [...]

Planning an affair is tricky business so it’s no wonder then that men and women who are cheating on their spouses use more text messages than the average person.  Many of these text messages are ued for adult sexting or the sending of erotic text messages to their lovers.
According to a study by IllicitEncounters.co.uk, its average [...]

After sending multiple text messages, it is evident that one may experience sore thumbs, less is known about its possible effects on the neck, arms, and hands.  According to the  Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, young adults who experience painful symptoms in these areas use a different technique while texting.
Ergonomist Ewa Gustafsson studied mobile [...]

A new study of teens by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said that 1 in 5 teens have
used the new art of “sexting” in communicating suggestive, nude, or nearly nude photos through cell phone text messages or email.
Most teens who sexted sent the photos to boyfriends or girlfriends, but a startling 11% [...]