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Show University Journal Page B2 Monday, August 25, 2008 Texting continues to expand Although still a relatively new form of communicate with each other, I conducted a communication originating in Europe in small research project to see if I could figure the early 1990s Americans are snapping out precisely how much text messaging has up text messaging technologies in escalating saturated our society. numbers. To recruit local participants for the survey As of February 2008, Communications portion of my study, I placed an advertisement News reports that U.S. citizens send in the print version of the University Journal approximately one billion text messages and on suunews.com, for one week. every day, up from roughly 2.8 billion per At the end of the week, one participant month in 2004 and 6.3 billion per month in was randomly selected to win a $100 2006. certificate redeemable at the SUU And texting, often used in lieu of spoken gift bookstore. conversation, is also being used for In the survey, I asked questions about increasingly diverse purposes. normal text messaging habits, participants In the world of entertainment, viewers of how they learned about the recent deaths the reality show American Idol voted for their favorite contestants via text message of actor Heath Ledger and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints 64.5 million approximately B. and President Gordon Hinckley was times last season, and that about their general informationonly through Cingular wireless GURU gathering habits. carriers. Here's what I found out: males In the world of sports, text more text messages than receive can subscribers exchange message females overall, but more females updates from MLB.com on final texted each other about the deaths of scores and player injury reports. And in the world of love, Web Ledger and Hinckley than males. sites such as www.txt2flrt.com The younger age group (18 to allow users to find dates through texted 15 percent more its matchmaking service. often on average than the older age Text messages have also worked and the group (over their way into the legal world, and younger group texted slightly more cases involving everyone from about Ledger and Hinckley than the NBA star Kobe Bryant to the older group, as well. ANGIE SMITH mayor of Detroit have included ranked Overall, participants text message transcripts as the Internet, television and text evidence. messages, respectively, as the top three On a more common scale, consumers sources they access for breaking news can use text message alerts to learn about information. breaking news, traffic jams, hair salon Now, clearly my single research project bank appointments, weather changes, the final word on all things isnt account transactions, flight cancellations, but seeing text messages place that high in local events and, of course, to keep in touch the rankings might be an indication that, with loved ones at all times. Because text messaging is instant and like the Internet not many years ago, texting almost always accessible, it can also be a may surpass traditional news providers as a primary source for breaking news great help in emergency situations. information. a have bandwidth calls large Whether that actually happens or not, text requirement and in many emergencies, messaging lines are technologies are still, no doubt, call often phone jammed by high volumes. actively putting their thumbprints on the world of communication. Text messaging, on the other hand, has a small bandwidth requirement and can often Angie Smith is a master of communication get through when voice calls cannot. Since its apparent that text messaging student from Las Vegas. She can be reachea has made substantial inroads into how we at angiepangiell34hotmail.com text-relate- d, MATTHEW SUU faculty and MONTGOMERY UNIVERSITY JOURNAL staff converse at the Aug. 18 Presidents Luncheon. 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