Thumb Tribe

The term "Thumb Tribe" has been in use across Asia for a number of years. The phrase appears to have originated in Japan, and Wordspy notes that the Japanese term for "Thumb Tribe" is "oyayubizoku".
"Thumb tribe" is a neologism which indicates younger generations who are good at using SMS(Short Messaging Service) and MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service) by using their thumbs. As the cell phone is widespread to people, some mobile-service companies provide 'unlimited message service'. "Thumb tribe" make use of this service to communicate and to chat with their friends not using calling, but using texting.
Customers who go to the service center and complain that they have problem about pushing their cell phone's button well could mostly be a "Thumb tribe". For a "Thumb tribe" who tries to convey information much and faster, in 2000, the one-handed typewriter which is faster than computer typewriter by using 12 buttons on the cell phone was developed in Korea. In America also, 75% of teens have a cell phone, an equal number use social networking sites and, most impressively, more than a third of them send over 3,000 texts per month. 100 times a day. 10 times an hour.
Due to increasing the number of "Thumb tribe" people and using their thumbs excessively, the muscle pain of thumb because of using thumbs excessively is also regarded as one of occupational sicknesses.

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