Has the text message disappeared?

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the invention of text messaging, and the first text message the inventor used to send was Merry Christmas.

SMS, are you still using it?

When I saw this question, I picked up my phone and looked at my messages. There were a few messages in there that I didn’t want to delete. They were all precious memories, the most precious. Do you still keep messages from close people or people you like or have a crush on?

Every Spring Festival, in the evening, I must send text messages to everyone to say New Year greetings. I find a few words to say New Year greetings and use the group sending function, which is convenient and fast.

And now, how long has it been since I used it to send a message? Why did the text message that was so popular back then end up in the current situation?

Now everyone’s mobile phone text messaging function is nothing more than three uses

10086 text messages

Every time my text message alert sounds, I know, probably 10086 came to tell me again that your phone bill balance is insufficient, please pay as soon as possible.

2. Verification code

Every time you register or log in to the software, the function of receiving text messages is just used, or when you buy a train ticket, you also need to verify it. Code

3. Ads

Do you have a lot of ads from Taobao or other ads on your phone? Those annoying ads drive my obsessive-compulsive disorder crazy

SMS, I haven’t sent messages with this software for a long time. I remember when I used Nokia, I used such a small keyboard to type quickly with my thumb. I used to type in our class. The fastest.

Back when we were using text messages, we could only send 70 characters in a text message. Every time, I had to rack my brains to write a text message and try to use up all the 70 characters. We definitely don’t send every text message with the mentality of saving money for China Mobile

At the beginning, we applied for a text message package every month just to send text messages to my girlfriend, but we could send hundreds of text messages a month. Not enough. Every month at the end of the month, I worry not about traffic, but because I don’t have enough text messages. Can you imagine such a day?

SMS has become popular in our country since 2000. At that time, up to 100 million text messages were used around us every year. By 2012, it reached its peak, and our country’s annual text message usage reached approximately 900 billion, this number makes me feel terrible when I think about it. In the years since 2013, the number of text messages has declined year by year, until it has reached the current situation.

What is the reason for the decline? The reason is that in 2012, WeChat began to come into everyone’s sight. This software, which only requires traffic but does not cost money, really made everyone feel the convenience of WeChat. SMS messages used to celebrate the New Year also began to enter the Internet. , WeChat can not only send text, but also send emoticons. This kind of software brought great convenience to everyone at the beginning. The biggest advantage is that it doesn't cost money, it's just traffic. At that time, traffic was still very cheap. Mobile traffic packages of 5 yuan for 30M and 10 yuan for 70M were basically enough for everyone's daily use. Compared with text messages, it can indeed be described as free of charge. It’s not like now. A few gigabytes of traffic every month is still not enough for me.

Now let me ask you, do you still have text messages from the person you liked in your phone?