Thursday, December 13, 2007
Text Messaging - The most convenient way to communicate
The article "New Political Tool: Text Messaging" by Cathy Hong was very interesting to me because I was not fully aware of how much the simple tool of texting was used out of the United States until now. I am always utilizing the SMS feature on my phone and actually switched my plan so I was able to send and receive text messages more often. Never did I think this tool would be used to gather a large amount of people together in such a short amount of time.
In the article it explained on instance where a 16 year old boy text messaged his friend in class to meet him somewhere and,
In the article it explained on instance where a 16 year old boy text messaged his friend in class to meet him somewhere and,
The next day in downtown Seoul, 400 students gathered to protest the severe pressures they must endure for the nation's highly competitive college-entrance exam.Also in other nations where the Internet has been censored, such as China, the cellphone has become an more important tool and now plays a bigger role.
In South Korea it was said that President Roh Moo Hyun would not have been elected without the help of the Internet and SMS.Simply because,
Roh's core supporters, who were of the younger "information technology" generation, launched a massive last-minute campaign. They fired off e-mails and text messages to 800,000 voters on the morning of election day, urging them to go to the polls.Interesting enough, the first text message sent fifteen years ago in 1992 by Neil Papworth which read 'Merry Christmas' to is colleagues at Britians Vodafone. An cool fact now reveals that Americans send more that 7 million text messages an hour. Wow, who would of thought an SMS feature on a cellphone would be taking to a level this high.
