After the first SMS, "Merry Christmas", which was sent from a PC to a mobile phone back in 1992, this method of communication boomed shortly after six years becoming the prime mode of messaging between the youth who are short or money or the couples who like to remain in touch all the time. The trend had gone past the popular point reaching addiction and mania but today SMS has just moved into the downward slope.

After it was introduced, this is the first time SMS have been seeing a downward trend with numbers failing records it had created, according to new reports.

UK mobile operators' promotion of the pay-as-you-go method of billing has been the push for the SMS services. Last year in UK alone there were 39.7 billion messages but the number is a billion shy of last year's record in 2012 as of now. US had a similar trend, reports indicate.

"For the first time in the history of mobile phones, SMS volumes are showing signs of decline," The Indipendent newspaper said.

However this doesn't mean that the electronic communication modes have dropped altogether. In fact it should be understood that with newer modes of communications like Social Networking via Facebook, Twitter and others have dramatically consumed a large share of SMS services. It should come as no surprise if with in another 20 years, you may see something extremely different from what is today in the field of communication; the pace of technological developments has made them ephemeral too.

(AW- Anil)