Editing Text messaging (section)

==== China ====
Text messaging has historically been popular and cheap in China. About 700 billion messages were sent in 2007. Text message spam has also been a problem in China. In 2007, 353.8 billion spam messages were sent, up 93% from the previous year. It is about 12.44 messages per week per person. In 2010, it was routine that the People's Republic of China government monitored text messages across the country for illegal content.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/world/20text.html | work=The New York Times | first=Sharon | last=Lafraniere | title=China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content' | date=20 January 2010}}</ref>
Among Chinese migrant workers with little formal education, it is common to refer to SMS manuals when text messaging. These manuals are published as cheap, smaller-than-pocket-size booklets that offer diverse linguistic phrases to utilize as messages.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Lin, Angel  |author2=Tong, Avin |name-list-style=amp |title=Mobile Cultures of Migrant Workers in Southern China: Informal Literacies in the Negotiation of (New) Social Relations of the New Working Women|journal=Knowledge, Technology & Policy |doi=10.1007/s12130-008-9045-9|year=2008|volume=21|issue=2|pages=73–81|hdl=10722/146528 |s2cid=110625303 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>