I text, you text, will we all txt-msg?

Editorial:

Lately everybody appears to send just as many text messages as they make phone calls. Maybe it's because texting just keeps getting easier to use while on the run, especially for the people who have an iPhone with a touchscreen keyboard or some similar product. In any case, if you are not sending text messages at the dining hall, in your apartment, walking to class, or maybe even during class (many professors now make note in their syllabus not to do this) then you probably have a rotary phone or a Zach Morris phone with zero texting capabilities.

But since UNHers are so deeply enthralled with sending text messages, it has left an impression on a number of non-students. University officials and a business with an office in Durham have both taken notice and each has launched their own major text message-related initiative.

Today, GossRSVP, a subsidiary of Goss International - a manufacturer of printing and newspaper equipment - has teamed up with The New Hampshire to track advertisement effectiveness by enabling readers to text a bar code number and receive coupons from advertisers in return. The system tracks those who respond to ads in real time. As of right now, The New Hampshire staff is deciding whether or not to use GossRSVP to track polls and stories via text message responses.

Besides for UNH community members sending text messages, many will also receive. The university kicked-off its new text message alert system with a campus-wide e-mail on Jan. 24 in which interested individuals could sign up at https://alert.unh.edu to receive text messages during a campus emergency. According to the e-mail sent from the Office of the President, UNH contracted Roam Secure, a Virginia-based company to send the alerts. Other New Hampshire schools including Southern New Hampshire University and Plymouth State University have also enacted text message alert plans.

If you haven't been a fan of text messaging in the past, you just might have to jump on board.