Huh. I’ve neither done this nor received such a text.
And from my aunt I got “this cost me ten cents” 
Good point, and that makes this even more obnoxious.
I don’t expect a hand-crafted personalized card in the mail from people I know. But I do expect them not to just spam out a generic holiday greeting simply because I have the misfortune to show up in their address book. Particularly when they don’t know me well enough to know whether I have to pay per text or whatever. This just seems like a really juvenile and annoying practice, particularly when coupled with the OP’s obvious glee in getting back responses indicating that the recipient has absolutely no idea who he is and/or is annoyed by the message.
It’s slightly less annoying than telemarketers calling.
And this is funny to you?
My boss did this over xmas. I didn’t know this was a thing. I just ignored it. It costs me money to text; I don’t do it at random.
It was funny to her.
Yeah! What do they think this is, Facebook??
Huh?
Well, true, it is kind of funny, but also not funny. 
If you get my drift.
Just saying that people tend to do this on Facebook. The more friends you have, the more holiday greetings will spam up your newsfeed
I don’t send mass texts, but I have one friend who does. I will just respond you, too or something.