100 Million Text Messages Sent on New Year's Day

"More than 100 million text messages were sent in the UK on New Year's Day as people greeted friends and relatives.

It is the first time the number of text messages in one day has topped the 100 million mark, according to Mobile Data Association research.

The total number of chargeable person-to-person text messages sent across the four UK network operators between midnight on December 31 and midnight on January 1 was 102 million.

It marked a 59% increase on the same period in 2002 and more than twice the 2002 daily average, MDA added." [Ananova, via Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

Do you really doubt this is going to eventually hit big in the U.S.? Libraries need to start preparing for an instant messaging future.