Social networks are still a long way from replacing text messages

This is an era of social networking everywhere, facebook,twitter, and all sorts of other things we remember. Social networks seem to have infiltrated our lives, from desktops to our mobile devices today. Today's smartphone, basically any one can access to a variety of social services, and even a lot of non-smartphones, but also built-in this type of functionality.

Perhaps because of the wave sweeping the world, Twitter's CEO, Dick Costolo, shouted at Barcelona's MWC that he wanted to push Twitter to every platform, every device, and even everyone else's life. But is the traditional mode of communication the old days of the day when social networks are on the road?

Also on the same day as Dick Costolo's speech, a Deloitte survey showed that 90% of smartphone users send at least one text message a week. By contrast, only 40% of smartphone users click on a social networking program every day, including Twitter and Facebook. In other words, the vitality of the message is still strong, the message may be the demise of the argument, seems to be premature.

In fact, the results of such investigations are not surprising. Texting is more direct and faster than social networking, and there's no social networking problem with privacy. In addition, the SMS function is more "original" than social network program in mobile phone. Even Costolo himself said: "We should let users do not start a separate program, you can at any time to send a push to the contact person."

On the other hand, the value that SMS brings to operators is probably more attractive than the little traffic that social networking programs use. In fact, the message itself to the operator, can be said to be a surprise accident, because you know, the birth of the message was originally to help those who have hearing impaired use of mobile phones, and today, it has become a cash cow.

The last thing to say: In many places, tweets can be done by sending text messages ...

Via Mobilecrunch