http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/09/29/americans-choose-texting-over-phone-calls/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/09/29/americans-choose-texting-over-phone-calls/comment-page-1/#comment-138475 julie Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:09:35 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=7322#comment-138475 I text constantly, I fall into the 25 and under demographic which texts more than they sleep (I send around 800/month) Texting has turned into its own form of communication. I don't think phone calls will ever be replaced but text messages have grown in popularity because they are used for so many different purposes. One of the newest of these being a search engine function. The appeal of text messages is the quick information and it is direct but not necessarily intrusive. ChaCha fills an interesting niche by keeping the human element of text messaging, people can use text messages the way they are used to using them to get information they couldn't get before. What google got wrong is expecting them to remember keywords and short codes. I text constantly, I fall into the 25 and under demographic which texts more than they sleep (I send around 800/month) Texting has turned into its own form of communication. I don’t think phone calls will ever be replaced but text messages have grown in popularity because they are used for so many different purposes. One of the newest of these being a search engine function. The appeal of text messages is the quick information and it is direct but not necessarily intrusive. ChaCha fills an interesting niche by keeping the human element of text messaging, people can use text messages the way they are used to using them to get information they couldn’t get before. What google got wrong is expecting them to remember keywords and short codes.

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