Instant messaging available from platforms such as Facebook looks set to replace cell phone text messaging. As the new generation of teenagers buy into smartphones such as iPhones, and BlackBerries because they provide a free BBM instant messenger platforms and there is no limit to the length or number of characters in a message.

Not so long ago teenagers revelled in the ability to ‘text speak’, a garbled mix of phonetic spelling, numbers and invented shorthand which, much to their amusement, was almost completely undecipherable to their parents. Suddenly this trend has turned on its head as more expensive smartphones with predictive text requiring less thought and are just as quick to write, are faster cheaper instant internet based real time text-based conversations. Now to use ‘text speak’ is to admit to not owning a smartphone!

Instant messaging is also predicted to make emails redundant, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying that ‘email is dead’ due to the launch last November 2010 of Facebook’s instant messaging service.

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The Prime Minister is to use Facebook to help establish what the public want. This is amazing news as it just shows how well the internet usages has been integrated into out society.

Mr David Cameron said, “We are really excited about having Facebook involved in The Spending Challenge,”.

This move will also help more usage of the internet where it would be easier to voice the public’s opinion much more swiftly and of course addresses the green issues by having no paper waste.

Zuckerberg Founder and CEO of Facebook is very pleased in working with the government.

The government will go in force on this subject adapting it as the huge public engagement project allowing the public to give critical input with the backing of the Chancellor George Osborne.

But it is not to late to hear the actual voice of the public, if the government listen carefully they may well secure their position in the next election.

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Centrally-Held Data is to be readily accessible as a result of the Government making it available now. Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook has thanked the Government for allowing this to happen.

This is great news for Software Developers as now they can interface much better with Facebook bringing more creative ideas involving data into its workings, currently there is over one million software developers using the Facebook platform and this number is increasing by the day. Software development is having a huge link with Facebook and this can only get better.

As a result of a meeting between David Cameron and Mr Zuckerberg said, “a lot of the stuff that they’re talking about is about opening government data. They want to see good use cases so that it’s worth carrying on doing it. The more stuff like that that developers can provide, the more I think it will continue”.

Last year Facebook revenues were over £540 Million which was outstanding news but due to it being a private company full financial data is not made available.

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