OMG — texting is so not today’s technology
By NPR
If you have teenagers in your house, you may find this hard to believe, but texting is on the decline.
For the first time ever, traditional texting — the kind you do through your cell phone provider — has dropped in Britain. That’s according to annual technology predictions report from Deloitte, which reported that the number of text messages passed around by Brits decreased by 7 billion last year.
Instead, the company predicts, people in the U.K. will send around 300 billion instant messages in 2014. That’s the kind of messaging that requires an app and uses the Internet. Old-fashioned texting is only expected to account for about 140 billion messages.
