Texting has usually been associated with sending a text message to a specific target, or specific targets in a group text, but not a room, forum, or public space. So yes, dms and texting are virtually identical. Posting on lemmy, reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc would not be, unless you again specifically selected individuals to send a direct messgae.
I knew some reply to this would lead us down the road of semantic pedantry.
This is also a text message. Would you say I am texting you right now?
Its not SMS but PM’s could totally read pretty similar.
And in most of the world they font use SMS; WhatsApp is the standard when someone says ‘text me’.
Pretty weird of you to say commenting is texting. But hey, you do you
Texting has usually been associated with sending a text message to a specific target, or specific targets in a group text, but not a room, forum, or public space. So yes, dms and texting are virtually identical. Posting on lemmy, reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc would not be, unless you again specifically selected individuals to send a direct messgae.
TIL DMing is texting.