Text messaging, or "txt msging" (get with it!) has officially gone mainstream. Once solely confined to those with thin enough fingers to type on a slippery phone key pad (i.e. the very young), it has now become the official media for the announcement naming Barack Obama's VP nominee.
Technology, thou hast arrived.
Dear Reader, if you have fat fingers, get new ones, or be left behind.

PS. I have thin fingers.