SMS

I was around for all the excitement about Vodaphone. England, Europe, Japan and Korea have been way ahead of us on using SMS as individuals and in England they have been finding ways to apply the technology to library services for more than a decade. We have just switched to sending emailed notices to people when we know that most of our patrons don't have computers at home..... We can be sure that upwards of 85% have cell phones, maybe we should have leapfrogged over email.

I use text messaging with my kids--- Ashamed to admit especially when I know they are in class...
but, I pay per message so I don't use it all that much.

I hate what txtng is doing to the informality of kids written language--- I had to stop somebody from sending a cover letter with his resume "that u requested"

Janet