Wednesday, April 27, 2011

SMS boom is at risk of extinction IM

Sms at risk of extinction. Mobile phone users do not like most text messages which have dedicated mobile phones. The old SMS you prefer instant messaging, more free and easy. That's why over the next generation of text messages may become extinct forever. To predict the "death" is a study commissioned by broadband provider TalkTalk, from the British newspaper Daily Mail reported.

In particular, experts predict that the amount of texts sent in the next two years will decrease by 20 percent in countries like Britain - but also Indonesia, South Africa and Brazil - where instant messaging applications like BlackBerry Messenger are now more widespread. The study found that for 51 percent of Britons, 15 to 20 years of age, e-mail is the preferred tool.

Industry experts believe this trend will be maintained even after reaching adulthood and this could lead to extinction within a generation sms. Instant messaging is very similar to SMS, but faster and less expensive. On some phones like the Blackberry, it is even free, and is currently used by 39 million people around the world.

According to experts of the consulting firm Mobile Youth Communication is the very success of the instant message that caused the collapse of the traditional use of text messages among young people. "We saw the fall of the use of SMS among the young and the main driver is the Blackberry," said Graham Brown, Director of Mobile Youth.

In recent years the use of BlackBerry Messenger has exploded in many countries with growth rates up to 500 percent. "Once the text messages started to fall - said Richard Windsor, analyst at Nomura mobile - I think that will continue to go down to hit zero." A recent report also found that instant messaging has surpassed even the e-mail, more and more eaten up by new forms of electronic communication.

Mark Zuckerburg, founder of Facebook, said that "email is dead", when in November last year launched its instant messaging on its social networking site. Slow, awkward and just less and less fashionable, the e-mail are slowly dying out along with text messages, experts say. Experts believe that people prefer the style of "one and done" ("one and done"), meaning that as you type, the words arrive at its destination almost instantly.

Tools like Twitter, for example. A single message arrives simultaneously to all the contacts. Valentina Arcovito

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