If you've spent the past few years building up your thumb strength and agility while keeping up with which bars have good drink specials (as I wrote the original version of this article, I was looking at a friend's message from the previous night that said, and I kid you not, «CcCome to bedinbl» — Jen had maybe been at a
barstool a little
too long...), you already know that text messages are an efficient way to get a brief burst of information in front of a lot of people at once.