Are you an old person?

Rating: Txting is so last year!

According to Orange its the oldies who continue to text while the hip young things move to instant messaging such as AIM and MSN Messenger. Recent research by Orange, reported over on textually.org, says “17,000 people in 30 countries revealed that once users adopt mobile instant messaging services such as AIM and MSN Messenger on their mobile phones, they reduce their use of text messages.”

“Of every 100 messages - including texts, emails and picture messages - sent by users without mobile instant messaging from their mobile phone or computer, 38 are text messages. Once consumers start using mobile instant messaging, the number of texts falls to 23 per 100.”

According to Matthew Kirk, who heads Orange’s portals business, older people tend to continue to use text messaging, and that currently the format is thriving, with Orange customers sending an average of more than 1.3bn text messages each month between November and January, up 21%.”

We say: Txting, I never do it, my arthritis doesn’t let me!!!! :-p Seriously though, the whole online presence, know where your freinds are/social networking will only really hit the teen market once data charges become flat rate throughout the industry.

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