Texting is 30, which means most adults don’t remember life before it

Without texting, we wouldn’t know how to tell people in three letters that something is laugh-out-loud funny (LOL). We wouldn’t have a quick way of conveying dismay (SMH), and we wouldn’t live in a world where most emotions are boiled down to a single, emotive image like ????. The technology, Short Message Service or SMS, all started with a 16-character message, ‘Merry Christmas.

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