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Brief history on how it SMS text messaging came about, and why it is useful.

337 summaries of research studies done on SMS (not organized except chronologically)

"A physicist named M. F. M. Osborne noticed that stock prices tended to cluster around numbers ending in zero and five. Why? Well, on the one hand, most people have five fingers, and on the other hand, most people have five more. [...] As it turns out, in well over 100 languages, the words that denote bigness are made with bigger sounds."

This article provides information about the motivation, means, and methods of text messaging in young adults (11-21 years old).

How Students Literacy Affected by Texting

Is technology bringing us closer together or driving us farther apart? "Digital storage space is now 40% more likely to cause family arguments than hogging the landline (do people still have landlines?), with 50% of us admitting to accidentally deleting stuff and 25% losing photos or contacts."