Facebook Data about the growth and the adoption of messaging [Infographic]

December 3rd 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SMS text message ever sent ??.

And in order to mark the SMS anniversary (remember thumbing them in on your old Nokia 5110? ?), Facebook has commissioned a global study of messaging use in order to provide some additional perspective on how messages are now being used, and the role they play in the modern interactive process.

At Messenger, facebook team believe in the power of messages to make meaningful connections. They believe in their power to engage and unite the people who make use of them. With this study, they wanted to dig deeper into how our global conversation has evolved and get a glimpse of where it is going, plus understand if some commonly believed myths were true. What they found is that messaging turns out to be not a wedge, but instead a bridge bringing us closer together.

Facebook’s included an overview of their findings in the below infographic – you can read the full ‘Messages that Matters’ report here.