SMS stand for Short Messaging Service, meaning the total character count for the message must be 160 characters or less. The concept for SMS messaging came from Franco-German GSM Cooperation by Freidhelm Hillenbrand and Bernard Ghillebaert in 1984, and the first text message was sent in 1992 by Neil Papworth, a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms, to Richard Jarvis, from Vodafone, telling him “Merry Christmas.” In 1993 Nokia became the first manufacturer to support user-sent text messaging, and in 1997 Nokia produced the first mobile phone with a full keyboard, the Nokia 9000i Communicator.
Through the innovation of smartphones, the virtual keyboard gained popularity and added aspects such as spell check, automatic correction, and predicted words/phrases to use in texts. Many social media and internet platforms use the SMS style, encouraging its growth, and in 2007 Americans sent and received more text messages than they did phone calls per month. Today, SMS is the most used data application with 81% of mobile phone users utilizing the tool.
Although text messaging is a quick and convenient way of how we communicate with and manage friends, family, work and social activities, it can create poor communication skills for avid texters and decrease social activity between people, decreasing the amount of time spent actually being with them. Texting also takes out all of the tone or personality of your message, creating misinterpreted meanings, things being taken out of context, and hurt feelings that could be avoided with a simple phone call or chat in person. For the full article, click here.
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