In the past, SMS was a great form of communication. The reasons were clear: practicality and cost-effectiveness. But do you remember when was the last time you used the SMS or MMS service after WhatsApp arrived? I remember, it was last night!
I remember today as a time when my Nokia 3310 and I had a great relationship, especially since I had won the device in conjunction with a postpaid plan in which I could send up to 30 free text messages per month. It really helped me keep my cellphone bill close to what a journalism intern in Brazil could afford at the time.
Since an SMS contains only 160 characters, it was always necessary to be as accurate as possible not to send two messages instead of one and end up wasting an SMS. Alis, the acronym comes from Short Message Service, which in Portuguese would be Short Message Service.
Opinion by Camila Rinaldi
Now we send out a huge amount of messages every day and just getting them is impossible.
After a while, my carrier, Vivo, started offering 10 messages (or text messages) a day through its official website, so that gave me one more breath in the budget. But best of all was when Orkut arrived, my communication flowed that it was a beauty. Following, social networks like Facebook or the MSN messaging service did the trick.