Right after purchasing iphone back in Korea, I literally stopped sending text messages my friends. Instead, I used ‘Kakao Talk’, the mobile messenger like ‘What’s App’ in US. Guess what happened afterwards… Many Kakao devotees have stopped sending Short Message Service texts since they downloaded the app, which allows users to send messages, pictures, soundbites and even video via the Internet.
The application is free to download, and sending and receiving material in wi-fi zones is also free.
Even outside the zones it is relatively cheap because it uses a mobile data payment plan rather than phone company connections such as SMS. However, the company makes part of its revenue from a commission on gifts which users can send to friends via Kakao.
Mobile messengers ... not only substitute for SMS, but also create a new communications culture, where users can actually chat even without a computer and have a group conversation. Moreover, a new phenomenon has emerged in which people who don’t use Kakao Talk feel excluded from their peers.
Will mobile messengers end texting?
In the long run, the answer will be yes. Now we are facing clearly destructive technology that destroys the former technology.
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