texting

Now she has a smartphone, and outside of texting and the odd call, only uses the Facebook app.

Here where I live (NL) texting someone means SMS, 'apping' someone is used for whatsapp and MMS is used for the rest.

Some people say SMS or texting to mean messaging.

Teenagers were terrible drivers before texting and they will be when holograms or whatever come next.

It was targeted at people who used their phones for texting, calls, and maybe email or the early mobile web.

But when texting, people don't always write them, so when an ambiguity arises you notice.

Notice that because of car accidents there is a lot of focus on car safety, stopping drunk drivers, texting while driving, etc?

Anonymous texting with no limits on message content and you (a) expect people to stay polite, and (b) want to denounce all responsibility?

They already used to have unlimited data and texting when roaming internationally.

Just like drivers killing themselves (and others) driving drunk or while texting.

Most carriers will disable texting wholly to your account on request.

There was one quiet teen, but they weren't substituting with texting.

You're splitting hairs here, common usage of "texting" includes sending pictures, video, and audio.

Perhaps "texting" has different meanings in different regions?

I don't think I've ever heard/seen MMS referred to as "texting".

Saying "the whole emoji thing" is like saying "the whole texting thing" in 2003 or "the whole internet thing" in 1997.