SMS traffic may have peaked, but not the use of silent SMS

snoopingEither I’m getting old or SMS isn’t what it was. This year at midnight on New Year’s Eve I received one text message wishing me luck for 2013 and the person who sent it wasn’t even drunk.

Rewind ten years, even five years and it was a very different story. Acres of text messages from wasted friends and contacts, one year I received more than 100 such missives… and probably replied to all of them. Continue reading