When cell phones first became big, probably 10-15 years ago at least, there was a website for my area I lived in at the time (southern Illinois) that would list

When cell phones first became big, probably 10-15 years ago at least, there was a website for my area I lived in at the time (southern Illinois) that would list texts and people could vote on the funniest ones. There were some really private messages that would hit the top (obviously phone numbers weren’t displayed.) So it used to be people had the assumption that texts were public, because for some carriers they basically were.