Actually voice mail and/or answering machine got obsolete, when the mobile phone was introduced. The whole idea of leaving a message on a land-line was that you can't really pick up the phone and carry it around. When the mobile phones got introduced the answering machine was no more needed. Actually if you check around you'll find out that only Americans and Canadians are using voice mail on their mobile. It never picked up in Japan, it never did in China or Europe. Hell, why not answer your phone or call back if you are in a meeting? If you go with the excuse that you forget your phone to often, why getting a mobile (meaning you can carry it around) phone at all?

However, when it comes to texting Bulgaria is on par with the rest of Europe, not the States, but Europe. Yes there are some of us, that love to text, but you hardly see people excited about it, so when you text, you do it with 2 or 3 people from your contact list.

And what about Internet, with today phones, being smart ones, do your students use their browsers or messengers, do you, do Americans? I always have my twitter on, I regularly check my FaceBook and have at least two of my messengers on on my cell phone.