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Happy Valentine’s Day with a text message

By Mack D. Male | February 13, 2008 at 11:09 pm

heart phone Holidays are always a good time for interesting statistics. How many phone calls were made? How many packages delivered? Or perhaps more interesting to my generation, how many text messages were sent? According to AT&T, Valentine’s Day is the most popular holiday for text messaging. Evidently there’s a 33% spike in texting traffic! That’s a lot of text messages.

I wonder what people are sending? A simple “I love you” or something more complicated, like FTBOMH IWALU (which translates to “from the bottom of my heart I will always love you”). Gizmodo has a handy list of these crazy combinations if you’re so inclined. Seems like more trouble than it’s worth to be honest, especially with the T9 functionality that all phones have.

I thought New Year’s Eve was the most popular holiday for text messaging, but maybe “drewheyman” has the right explanation in his comment on the Gizmodo post:

sending ‘happy new years’ = 1 message per friend. send txts to sig other for the sex = as many messages as it takes.

What will you be texting tomorrow?!

Happy Valentine’s Day :)

Read: Gizmodo




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5 Responses to “Happy Valentine’s Day with a text message”

  1. Which of your favorite sites want to be your valentine? » Make You Go Hmm Says:
    February 14th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    [...] so I’ll have to watch others sharing the Twitter love. While on the subject of text messages MasterMaq’s Blog shares some stats via Gizmodo on text messaging popularity: According to AT&T, [...]

  2. Megan Says:
    February 14th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Do updates count? Like Twitter and Facebook?

  3. colinizer Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    If only the phone company would reject bad English or slacker abbreviations given that there’s no such thing as “new years” (a slacker abbeviation/combination of “happy new year” and “new year’s eve”).

  4. Inge Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    no no colin, the worst is “your” instead of “you’re” my goodness that drives me up the wall.

  5. Mack D. Male Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Gonna have to agree with Inge on that one!

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