Her mobile phone is an indispensable part of her everyday life.

Kiara is far from being the only one.

Telstra says we're a text-obsessed nation and that almost evry1 is doing it.

``Evry1'' is text talk for ``everyone'', and if SMS language has you mystified, you're not the one in three the survey found who choose to SMS rather than phone or email.

In a survey of more than 1200 people, Telstra has found that SMS has overtaken the telephone, email and social networking sites in the popularity stakes when it comes to announcing major life events.

The State of the Nation report released last week found four in 10 people said they send between three and seven text messages a day to family, friends and their partners respectively.

And Kiara Spiteri said she sent a far greater number of text messages every day.

``I'm texting every two seconds to my friends, my boyfriend and my family just asking stuff like where are you, what's going on,'' she said.

``It's a lot easier to text.''

Kiara said she was never without her mobile phone and that she went ``stir crazy'' on the one occasion she had left it behind.

``I forgot it at home when I went on holidays for two weeks and I went crazy,'' she said.

``I never go anywhere without it. Even when I take a shower I make sure it's close by.''