If you didn’t know this existed then you are living well in the past.
SMS messaging has been incredibly popular for a number of years now and still continues to grow each year.
Networks are flooded with text messages per hour and we have often seen big events such as the world cup and other such things clog up networks with texts, so much so infact, that sometimes it bring the network to a halt causing long delays in sending and receiving messages.
If you are the sort of person that isn’t so good at typing on your mobile phone on text speak, so you can quite easily find services free and payed for that allow you to send text messages to other peoples Mobile phones from your PC.
Something like SMS from PC will do the trick to allow you to keep in contact with friends and family without using your phone.
You may also find that your network provided gives you a certain number of free online texts to send, for example, O2 has an online feature to send text messages from your existing plan for free to other Phone users.
Give it a try if you haven’t, it’s a lot quicker than using your phone!