This can lead to better future communication.
SMS features "confirmation of message delivery". Unlike paging, users do not simply send a short message and trust / hope that it gets delivered. Instead the sender of the short message can receive a return message back notifying them whether the message has been delivered or not. Delivery is still not necessarily guaranteed. If message delivery is unsuccessful, the SMS service will retry only a finite number of times before giving up all together. SMS messages do not always arrive in a timely fashion. Frequently messages can arrive in a fragmented / disjointed manner or out of sequence with previous messages. This can be due to multiple factors, including but not limited to inter vendor network difficulties. Consider also that SMS is a way of sending a message with a device to a device not strictly speaking from one person to another. Possibly other individuals will see / manipulate the message before the intended recipient, depending on the security settings on the handset on the receiving side. For these reasons SMS is arguably an unreliable form of communication.
SMS popularity has grown as a result of:.
1. Cost - SMS is less expensive then the airtime used for voice calls or web access. .
2. Non-intrusive - messages are received in a discrete fashion and do not interrupt an individual if they are in the middle of something. Socially this is a very big plus. .
3. Integration Capabilities - many software programs can be set up to send text .
alerts to mobile phones when urgent conditions exist. Purely from an IT point of view, this can aid companies greatly in the area of system maintenance.
Synchronous Communication: Yahoo Instant Messaging.
Instant Messages are used to communicate with friends almost instantly on the Internet, and they are quite similar to e-mail in that you send messages back and forth, with the big difference been that you don't have to wait hours, or in some cases even days for a reply.
