Yep, I agree it’s pretty annoying. What’s ironic though is that in the spirit of shortening everything (like many Americans seem to do), “texted” would’ve been shorter (and in this instance there’s nothing particular about which app they used to do that).
Whatsapp doesn’t use the SMS protocol though so if you send a WhatsApp message it doesn’t appear as a text message it appears in the WhatsApp app, you have to have the app installed so it is a significant distinction to make.
When I’m dealing with clients I’m mostly told to send them a WhatsApp message but occasionally they will tell me to send a text message and that means that they don’t have WhatsApp and I actually have to use the SMS system. They just say WhatsApp or text and know that I’ll be able to work it out.
Yep, I agree it’s pretty annoying. What’s ironic though is that in the spirit of shortening everything (like many Americans seem to do), “texted” would’ve been shorter (and in this instance there’s nothing particular about which app they used to do that).
It might be to highlight that he used WhatsApp, which is popular in Europe but not America.
Sure, but it still doesn’t change the story. It’s a piece of text, it gets from one person to the other over a mobile network or over the Internet.
Whatsapp doesn’t use the SMS protocol though so if you send a WhatsApp message it doesn’t appear as a text message it appears in the WhatsApp app, you have to have the app installed so it is a significant distinction to make.
When I’m dealing with clients I’m mostly told to send them a WhatsApp message but occasionally they will tell me to send a text message and that means that they don’t have WhatsApp and I actually have to use the SMS system. They just say WhatsApp or text and know that I’ll be able to work it out.
I know how it works. Texting sometimes means SMS specifically, but other times it might mean messaging over any non-SMS app/protocol.
Yes but for us reading the story it’s irrelevant if he received a WhatsApp, signal or SMS message
And that message is received in a text form, hell, use “messaged me” if you prefer, I don’t care