kajeet for Kids: Texting
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Text a kajeet phone -- now!
Want to send a text message to any kajeet phone right now, right from your computer? No problem! Click over to this page.
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A mini-library of emoticons
Emoticons are fun to use when texting. Here are a dozen of our favorites.
:-) smiling
:-( frowning
:-# face with braces
:-B face with buck teeth
;-) winking
:-{D moustache
=:-O shocked
>:-O yelling
*<:o) clown
(:3= walrus
O:-) angel
<3 heart
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Five fun facts about texting
- 1. In the world of cell phones, a text message is called an "SMS," which stands for "short message service."
- 2. While there are some variations, most text messages are set at a maximum of 160 characters.
- 3. The first commercial text message was sent on December 3, 1992.
- 4. About 17 billion text messages were sent worldwide in the year 2000. The next year, that number rose to about 250 billion. By 2004 the number was 500 billion.
- 5. In July 2006, 18-year-old Ben Cook of Utah claimed the world speed-texting record, sending a 160-character message in just 42.22 seconds.