This article talks about how texting has become ever more popular in Canada over the years. Canada is the birthplace of the Blackberry and mobile e-mail, and we're among the most obsessed users of Facebook and now texting. Texting is considered to be somewhat of an old-school form of electrical communication; it was first introduced in Canada in 2002 and it is now bigger than ever. According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, 56.4 billion texts were sent in Canada in 2010, up 60 per cent from the 35.3 billion sent the previous year. Although Canada has so many different new ways of communicating people still seem to like texting more than anything else. "I think text messaging has a certain appeal just because it is so instant and so quick and all you have to know is a person's phone number," said association spokesman Marc Choma. Overall the article basically talks about how texting is one of the largest forms of communication in Canada and how it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
I'm quite surprised at the number of text messages sent in Canada in 2010. 56.4 billion is an extremely large number, that's about an average of 4.7 billion texts sent per month. Personally, I'm a big fan of texting my friends because it's probably the easiest way to communicate with somebody who isn't in the same room as you. I think the number of text messages sent in Canada is going to keep growing because more and more people are getting cell phones every year and texting isn't going to take a back seat to any other form of electronic communication.
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