Just wondering, how popular is text messaging in the US? Because here, it's a way of life. 12 million messages each day, I might add.

 

It's not really caught on yet.

I think I get about 20 of them a day here in Korea.

 

One reason I think it might be popular in Korea is because the Korean language is so much more compact and you don't really need to make full sentences and people will still be able to understand.

With the limit in amount of space a message can take, sometimes only one or two sentences can be sent in English.

 

You've got to be kidding. Why can't you just shorten and abbreviate the words? That's what we do here.

 

Text messaging is quite popular here in the US. It will never be as popular as it is overseas, but since it's beginning, it's been growing quite rapidly. When it was first introduced, it was a free, unlimited feature.....now it's an add-on, pay-per use feature, that people rush to pay for. I, on average, send/recieve well over 1500 sms a month. (Of course I work for a mobile phone company) =-)

 

Well... for me it took me a while to send out one message in Korean (cause I'm not fluent). I'm not sure of the message length, but you can say a whole lot more in written Korean than in written English if you want to make sense.

I tried writing a few messages in English and I could only fit in a few sentences. It might be different for phones outside of Korea or I must have been making my sentences too long.

To write "yes" takes three spaces where yes in Korean only takes 1 space. Most Korean words only take up 2-4 or 5 spaces.

I think sms's are getting more popular and I think they have more room so it's probably better now. Since you can send and recieve emails also, the space must be larger. The cell phones that we have here are pretty much out of date. One of the newest ones I see from Samsung are like the AnyCall that were in Korea last year.

 

SMS messages have a limit of 160 characters. If you are crafty enough, you can fit lots of sentences in one message. That's what we do here. How many characters is the limit in Korean phones? I know that they have a different network (CDMA) than we do (GSM).