In 2012, about what share of American teens sent 50 or more text messages a day?
Answerabout 50%
Texting had already become the dominant way teens communicated with friends by then.
Source: Wikipedia (Text messaging) (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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In 2010, about what share of U.S. adult cellphone users sent or received text messages?
Answerabout 72%
Texting had already spread well beyond teenagers to a large majority of adults.
Source: Wikipedia (Text messaging) (2010) en.wikipedia.org
About how many spam text messages were sent in the U.S. in March 2021 alone?
Answerabout 7.4 billion
That figure came from RoboKiller's tracking of spam text traffic that month.
Source: RoboKiller (via FCC) (2021) fcc.gov
How many consumer complaints about unwanted text messages did the FCC receive in 2021?
Answerover 15,000 complaints
That was on top of a huge volume of complaints about unwanted robocalls.
Source: Federal Communications Commission (2021) fcc.gov
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