Research by Orange has shown that texting is on the way out – appraently when peopel start using Mobile-IM, they reduce their use of text messages:
“Of every 100 messages – including texts, emails and picture messages – sent by users without mobile instant messaging from their mobile phone or computer, 38 are text messages. Once consumers start using mobile instant messaging, the number of texts falls to 23 per 100.”
One of Orange’s portal heads stated that older people continue to use text messaging, and even in the face of the research, text is still alive, with Orange Customers sending an average of 1.3bn texts between November and January.
So, looks like I am old since I use text – also looks like, from the stats, that I am helping to make Orange very profitable!
[Via: textually.org]