Publisher Summary The breadth of “texting” includes more than the simple transmission of text-based material from one mobile telephone to another. Increasingly, “text” messages are including photographs, sound files, and other attachments. These are being adapted into various forms of gaming and TV voting, and they are starting to move across platforms. Both I-mode and enhanced GSM telephones can send messages to Internet addresses, and vice versa. One can also engage in various types of “chat” and instant messaging sessions from mobile telephone terminals, albeit at a lower transmission rate. Text messaging allows maintaining contact with friends and colleagues, but at the same time it is inconspicuous. Texting has a varying role when it comes to the other general themes of mobile telephony such as safety, coordination, access, and the disturbing influence. It is a coordination tool more discreet than other forms of interaction. Texting is related very much to teens and young adults. Teens are carrying the technology with them as a part of their repertoire of communication possibilities.