23 billion text messages are sent each day worldwide (Source: SMSeagle) That's 270,000 each second! To put this into context, nearly 1 million SMS messages were sent by the time you read this! Out of the 23 billion text messages sent daily, 6 billion are sent in the US. How does frequent "texting" and less talking on the phone or face to face communication affect the nature of our relationships, both positively and negatively