Germans are world SMS champions

A survey by the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) recently showed Germans send a whopping 200 million messages a year, which was nearly three times as many as the Finns, in second place at 75 million or Britons at 70 million. In contrast, the United States was not even listed among the top 20 countries.

Here's how Germany's biggest magazine Der Spiegel sees this new German obsession: "For generations Germans were known for their steadfastness and punctuality," the magazine says. "Now we have become a nation of people waiting for a last-minute text message advising us where we're expected to be half an hour from now."

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