Maybe You Are Sending The Wrong Message With Your Texts

Texting is simultaneously the most efficient and less effective way to communicate, and these days everyone does it, including your uncle on his flip phone and your grandma with all that weird spacing and random periods and all caps messages that make you think like your nanny is yelling at you!Show more

So these two are about to send you one important messages, recent studies have found out that
A few research centers from 2011 have found out that Americans send or receive an average of 41.5 messages a day, assuming that includes messages with no clear ending like ‘i’ll pick you up at’, or ‘i think we should’. This points out to the crazy amounts of text messaging, accounting to over 15,000 messages a year!

With all those amounts of texting it may surprise you to find out that you are doing it wrong! Texting was originally called SMS, standing for short messaging service, developed in 1984 by the German GSM corporation. The very first message that was send out in the UK on December 3rd 1992 read ‘Merry Christmas’.

Unfortunately the second message ever sent was ‘new phone, who dis’, and a lot of our bad texting habits can be traced back to 1997 when Nokia became the first manufacturer to produce a mobile phone with a full keyboard. However, it was in 2007 with the birth of the iPhone that helped create the BRB, OMG, LOL world that we live in now! That is one of the ways that people text wrong!

Actually, texting has created a new language where fingers are speaking in text lingo. Moreover, not understanding the abbreviations can end up in you sending out the wrong text or message! Watch this video to find out more!