Texting or SMS or TMS

Use a Droid, Iphone, Blackberry, cell phone, PDA, Pager, etc to send a short text message.

Depending what part of the world you live in it could be called one of these as the colloquial term.

Americans say "Texting" but in parts of Asia and Europe they tend to call it SMS or in some parts TMS..

You can use text to do a lot of things now.

Originally it was just for short messages but as things change it can be used to vote in competitions, order products and services online, etc..

 As the image shows people with large fingers have trouble with the small tightly packed keys or touchpad keyboards causing some people to abandon the idea and revert to voice calls or laptop or computer keyboards.

Texting is a silent and often discrete way to send a message.

However, texting remains very popular and more so with young people (they have smaller fingers and a lot more time to spend or waste chatting with friends and developing their social connections).

Companies are now jumping on the bandwagon and are sending junk mail texts and spamming so we are inundated with more aggravation as the technology grows.

By definition the texter sends a message to the textee.
Needless to say the messages are limited in length so a short hand has developed.