SMS: The Future Of Advocacy and Political Communication?

Progressive politico, advocacy, and communications folks should take serious note of a new Pew Internet report that confirms the growing reach of cell phone text message communication.

About 134 million American adults have cell phones and 27% of them say they have used the text message feature on those phones within the past month. That represents 34 million people who use a cell feature also known as short message service or SMS.

"The proliferation of cell phones and the spread of text messaging are changing patterns of communication for many Americans -- especially younger ones," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "These technologies are introducing new notions about what it means to be 'present' with someone else and about what it means to be in conversation with them. For some cell phone users, the stream of conversation hardly ever ends." [ Pew Internet ]