SMS is Dead. Here comes Facebook Chat.

Really stupid article. Facebook Chat on the iPhone will kill SMS? What's the iPhone global penetration rate? 1%? So I'll be able to chat with 1% of my friends assuming they all arrange to run the iPhone Facebook app at the same time as me? Yeah, sounds like a real replacement for SMS.<p>Gah, silly.

Wow, it must be 2007 again. "Facebook chat is coming! Facebook chat is coming!" No one cared then, no one cares now.

Killer feature for Facebook chat is chat history? Really? My (free with contract) Verizon phone does just this with AIM. No need for a data plan.<p>And the iPhone does this with SMS. I'm sure the iPhone AIM apps do this, too.<p>So yeah: "Woo! Facebook chat!"

This article is dead on accurate! EVERYBODY on my contacts list uses Facebook because I just deleted all my business and work contacts just so I could have exclusive 1 on 1 chat with Facebook users. What insightful and well thought-out writing that was.

This article is idiotic, but the higher-level point is that people <i>should</i> kill SMS with applications that send messages as Internet data. This is more likely to be AIM or Yahoo messenger than Facebook chat, but with so many devices out there supporting 3rd party applications it won't be long before a large number of heavy SMS users switch to these alternatives.

Is this from the onion?

Hmm, I'm not on Facebook, nor do I have an iPhone... How is this relevant?

If we're speaking penetration, given smartphones as a whole, I think email has a higher chance of replacing SMS on phones than Facebook chat/etc does.

Why don't people write about Blackberry Messenger (BBM)? It's been killing SMS for a while, every single person I know is on BBM.