Even the Vatican is Texting!

Wondering how prevalent texting is on the world stage today?

Check this out:
• Doctors in Ohio are experimenting with texting as way to remind teenagers to take their medication.
• Some pizza and burger places will let you text in your order.
• Law enforcement agencies are looking into using anonymous text messages to help solve crime.

But here’s my favorite:
• The Pope is going to use text messages this year during World Youth Day in July to send messages of hope and inspiration to Catholics around the world.

I hope the Pope has his text-talk translator with him on World Youth Day.

-Paul Loeffler

Comments

[France]

Wow, that's cool and freaky at the same time. I guess the world is getting smaller,with every text we send. It's very helpful too! But,wow that's interesting.

[Kyralessa]

...And yet, for reasons unclear to everyone on the planet, it costs more to send 160 characters of text than to talk on a mobile phone for a few minutes. (Indeed, a NYTimes article the other day said it costs more to send text messages than to send data from the Hubble telescope.)

Text messaging is a far smaller amount of data than voice, and should be practically free. How long are people going to put up with mobile phone companies ripping them off this way?

[Ederic]

Here in the Philippines, there are SMS services that let cellphone users receive bible quotes and reflections.

[Aaron]

That text-talk translator is only good if you use it =). Sometimees even teenagers don't understand all the shortcuts out there. I'm a big fan of IMHO, although it's not very humble.