SMS at 30: you're different because of texting
) carried their BlackBerries and other physical-keyboard-sporting feature phones around like talismans.
While the iPhone didn't play a role in the early adoption of SMS culture, it helped drive the transformation from a largely text-based SMS culture to one riddled with graphical emojis. Now, three decades on, SMS texting has forever changed how humans communicate. A recent study commemorating the first SMS's 30th Anniversary fromPhone calls are all but dead. The survey of 1,000 US consumers found that just 24% still prefer voice calls over communicating via SMS and other texting proxies, like WhatsApp and instant messaging . Naturally, younger people are even less inclined to pick up calls.
Whenever I go for a ride, I take note of all the people engaged in one of the most dangerous habits on the planet: texting and driving. You can't blame SMS for this abhorrent practice. SMS was designed for phones with simple, small screens that you'd be hard-pressed to read while operating a vehicle. Big, screen, high-resolution phones have made it too easy to glance down, read a text, and then quickly tap out a response as you plow into the car in front of you.
Infobip's survey found that an alarming 52% of millennials admitting to texting and driving. Maybe for SMS's birthday, someone will develop an OS-level auto lock that makes in-car texting, at least by drivers, impossible. No, I don't know how, but it's worth thinking about.
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