In a press release today, Verizon Wireless touts text messaging as the key to a fun spring break for college students. It may just be me, but I can't see your average 21 year-old taking a break from sun and fun to go to the Verizon Wireless pavillion to send text messages.

Text messages are extremely cumbersome to compose and still have serious length limitations. Anything useful I get in return is cut off. The only time I have ever used text messaging was in CLE classes, faced with 7 or 8 hours during which I was both extremely bored and prohibited from speaking. In almost any other situation, I can't imagine why I would want to send text messages.