AT&T just committed a serious faux pas by spamming millions of their users with text messages to remind them to tune into American Idol. AT&T denies that their act was spamming because they only sent the texts to heavy texters and people who have voted on American Idol using text messages.
There has been a backlash. People do not want companies randomly sending them text messages and that’s just one of dozens of places I read unhappy about the spam.
My question is why even bother with text messaging anymore. I just have a normal boring cell phone and I made Verizon disable texting on my account because I never sent any outbound and the inbound were never messages that I wanted to receive.
But even more important than that is the fact that we are quickly heading into an age when most people will no longer need text messages.
I have an iPod Touch and anywhere that I can get Wi-Fi, I can use email, chat, or services like Twitter and Facebook. For people with the iPhone or other smartphones, they can access these types of services anywhere they can get a signal.
With that kind of power, why bother with texting anymore?
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