SMS, you've come a long way, baby...

I miss texting or SMS as they call it in some areas. In the Philippines texting is the preferred mode of communication (over phone calls) because voice is more expensive. Here in Bakersfield calling and texting almost cost the same. So many mobile phone users just call instead of thumbing away on their keypads.

But texting has other "useful" functions. To name a few:

1. Divorce can be handed down via SMS. But Malaysia is reviewing it.
2. For political campaigns. Texting was used for the presidential campaign.
3. Sending love notes. Filipinos are better lovers because of this. Read here. But ladies still prefer the paper-based notes. Read here.
4. Sending break-up notes. A hightech way of inflicting a special pain. Read here.
5. Reporting that a politician has a mistress. But for some its a fact of life.
6. To oust a government. True or not, myth has it that former president Erap Estrada was forced to step down because of text power.
7. File your income tax. Said to be the first in the world. More...
8. Cr8 a nu wri10 lngwij. chek it hEr. wnt a transl8r 4 DIS? clik hEr
9. Can make you sicks (make you fat, senile, lead to STDs, etc.) Here.
10. We become MOCIOLOGIST.

So, like the cigarette ad once said, "...you've come a long way, baby..."