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Contents of this article:
 Introduction
Web links for FREE text messaging to mobile phones
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Text adapted from St Clare's, Oxford, OnLine (SCOOL) English Language Newsletter, Thursday, 8 March, 2001, written by Geoff Taylor, SCOOL Co-ordinator
Introduction: Getting and keeping in touch - text messages and mobile phones
Isn't life full of contadictions?
On the one hand, more and more people are beginning to use their PCs as telephones, and on the other hand, they are using their mobile phones like PCs to receive short text messages - really just another kind of email. In the UK, 70 million text messages are sent per month, according to the Guardian Online, February 15, 2001, page 13. "The heaviest users are people under 24 who often send 10 messages every day and rarely use their mobile phones to make a phone call."
Another curious fact: a series of text messages between two people can develop into a kind of short dialogue, so that using text messages becomes like Internet chat, just slower.
Chatting by voice is the most personal and direct. But text messages have advantages too - people can take more care when writing them, and can read them when they want, when they have time.
Web links for FREE text messaging to mobile phones
Below are some useful Web links for FREE text messaging to mobile phones.
Keep in touch with any friends who are still in the UK:
Keep in touch with your friends worldwide:
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