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According to the twice yearly CTIA survey about text messages and mobile usage, America sends an average of 4.1 billion, yes BILLION, text messages a day. Our grand total for the half-year so far is 740 BILLION text messages. What are we? A bunch of 12-year-old girls? How many of these conversations do you think took place with users right next to each other? Here are a few more stats that might rock yo’ boat:

• Some 1.1 trillion minutes were used in the first half of the year (or 6.9 million minutes per day)

• There’s 246 million mobile data capable devices out there. You know, phones, 3G cards for your laptop, etc.

• Carriers made $19.4 billion in gross revenue from data plans in the first half of the year. Again, that’s gross revenue, so you’d have to take into account how much it costs to keep everything working, salaries, etc.

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UK phone retailer Right Mobile Phone conducted an interesting survey among their customers and got some intriguing results. According to their survey:

• 71% say using their favorite song as their alarm clock, versus the system default or no alarm clock at all, made them feel happier that day
• 80% say not receiving a reply to their text messages makes them feel “negative”, whatever that means
• 41% said going by one day without getting a text message made them feel unpopular or lonely
• Less than one in 10 people, 9% to be exact, actually laughed at a text message despite 61% of people using “LOL” in a text message
• None of the people surveyed have ever rolled over the floor laughing, otherwise known as ROLFing, or laughed their asses off, otherwise known as LMAO or in my case LMFAO
• 82% of people love to hear from their partners or people they deeply care about on a daily basis
• 18% of people don’t pick up when their parents call
• 78% of people tell someone that they love them using a mobile phone on a daily basis
• Less than 7% of people said they could go one whole day without using their mobile phone
• On average, people have 95 people in their address book
• 69% of people call or text less than 8 people a week
• 18% of people have pretended to receive a call or text messages

Now, what can we distinguish from this survey? We’re all a bunch of fucking liars and sneaks.

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Many of life’s major moments transpire through text messages these days. If you don’t have a phone with a high-storage capacity, you probably have to frequently clean out your text messages, which means you don’t get to keep all of those memorable messages.

Ginger Anyhow figured out how to save those moments forever and even advertise them around her home. These Embroidered Text Messages take “SMS messages and makes them keepsakes.”

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We already know we are the greatest human beings in the universe, but it would be nice to hear it from other people too. The problem is that we don’t hear anything even close to that claim from our friends or even our own mothers.  So why not get a little help at proving what we already know to be a scientific fact?

Cell Stickies are made to not only glorify your existence as the greatest living human being, but also to assure everyone else around you that you aren’t just fucking around when you say that you are insanely awesome. With positive reinforcement text messages such as “You’re right. As usual!” being sent to your phone, how could people not realize your greatness?

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