Tough Texting

The Friday File: While the first text message was sent on 12/3/92, it took until 2005 for the number of SMS/MMS messages sent in the U.S. to exceed 100 billion, probably because they cost $0.10/text. Then they became free, and the number sent zoomed to one trillion in 2008 and peaked at 2.4 trillion in 2011. Since, they have leveled off and were 2.0 trillion in 2021, that’s 6,000 texts/person!