Why everyone loves to text message: social management with SMS

  • Authors:
  • Louise Barkhuus

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This poster presents a study of SMS use among young adults and how they manage their social lives by SMS. It focuses on three features: overcoming shyness, facilitating 'appropriate behavior' and how users exploit the conciseness of messages. In conclusion we discuss the surprising value of this modest medium in people's everyday lives.