BlackBerry Messaging. Who knew such a simple term could mean so much
in our society today? This invention introduced to the public in 1999 not
only spread like rapid fire but created a phenomenon across the world. Some
may argue this term, BlackBerry Messaging, is just a reproduction of text
messaging, which was first used in 1992 but when one actually compares the
two they notice an immense amount of differences. BlackBerry phones have
become so popular that their initial audience is no longer just people in
the business field. This Smartphone introduced an entire side of
communication that nobody knew previously existed. Just as phone calls,
text messages, emails, the Internet and voicemails expanded mass media and
forms of communication, Blackberries are now allowing all of these ideas to
be compiled into one device. With this being said, BlackBerry messaging is
a more efficient form of text messaging in which our generation today
mistakes for an intellectual form of social interaction among their peers.
Although many may think that the Smartphone was recently invented
because it has become so popular over the course of the past five years, it
was actually created in 1999. It was first introduced in Germany however a
Canadian company entitled Research In Motion made it. The phone did not
become the new craze until the twenty- first century when it was remodeled.
Proof of this came "In November of 2004, Research In Motion announced that
there were over two million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. This was up
from one million earlier in the year" (The History of the BlackBerry).
Within less then six months from this time came another million
subscribers, followed by another two million within less then a year from
that time. Research shows that from 2004 to 2008, Blackberry phones spread
like r...