Texting Championships?
I spent some time in Asia a few years ago. It amazed me how everyone sent ‘texts’ back and forth instead of picking up the phone. My friends/collegues/acquantences told me that they’d ‘text me’ about any given subject. I quickly realized that this was because outgoing text messages are free in certain markets.
What supprised me recently was that cell phone, (and other electronic), manufacture sponsored a texting contest, (LG National Texting Championship)! And who was the winner? 13 year old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, PA. She texted “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from the movie Mary Poppins in just 15 seconds to win $10,000. I can barely type it that fast on my PC’s QWERTY keybord.
Morgan says that she sends more than 4,000 text messages a month. Since texting is usually not free in North America, her next set of 4, 000 text messages are going to be sent to her mom & dad saying that “I will not run up a $10,000 cell phone bill gain”.