Yeah I’m gonna pipe my opinion here too. If I said “so and so signaled me” that would be very weird in any context. Facebook Messengered me? iMessaged me? Smsed me? Snapchatted me? I mean fuck twitter people said “dmed” me not twittered me
I wonder if France had cheaper SMS rates in the early 2000s because that was the big driver of WhatsApp. I have to admit though in my experience I don’t think I know of any situation where someone from France has ever used anything other than WhatsApp. I would hate it if they texted me because then it wouldn’t auto translate.
Standard mobile plans in France have included unlimited SMS since the mid 2000s I’d say. People still use it, but WhatsApp/Messenger are pretty popular too.
It’d come down to popularity and ease of use, right? I don’t know if it’s “good” generally to verb a company, but if it’s popular and either easy to say or easy to shorten, it’ll be easy to turn into a verb. Surprisingly, I hear “snapchatted me” not uncommonly, despite not using Snapchat myself.
Twittered me doesn’t work, because dms aren’t the primary use. If someone said “oh i’ll twitter you” I’d assume it’d be a post pinging me or something and think it’s kind of a strange way to say that. If dms were the primary use case of Twitter on release, I think “tweet” probably would have gone there, and if tweet wasn’t decided on early posting on twitter would just become “twittered” or probably more like twiting, has to be short and catchy after all.
iMessage and Facebook Messenger I believe are both default apps (less sure about fb Messenger, might be my memory playing tricks on me). The default message app is “texting”, which I think is why the others get verbed. Also doesn’t help that Messenger isn’t that distinct from “message” which is what text means anyways, and Facebook falls into the Twitter problem. Not a lot of good ways to abbreviate for speech either.
I imagine Signal just isn’t popular enough, I don’t know if I went to a group of people they would know what I meant. Definitely can’t help that “signalling” is a real word with a different meaning that humans regularly do, so if you use it with someone who doesn’t know they’ll just be confused. If you were with a group that had the main chat in signal, I think saying “oh yeah I’ll signal you” wouldn’t be like an outrageous thing to say. Might be different since for Signal users it tends to be a full or almost full replacement, so saying “text” implies “signal”.
Yeah I’m gonna pipe my opinion here too. If I said “so and so signaled me” that would be very weird in any context. Facebook Messengered me? iMessaged me? Smsed me? Snapchatted me? I mean fuck twitter people said “dmed” me not twittered me
If you told someone in Europe you were going to txt them they would think you were weird
“What you don’t have whatsapp? It’s literally free”
Europeans don’t text, they use messenger apps, mostly WhatsApp
It really depends on the country. SMS is still commonly used in France for instance.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1005178/share-population-using-whatsapp-europe/
I wonder if France had cheaper SMS rates in the early 2000s because that was the big driver of WhatsApp. I have to admit though in my experience I don’t think I know of any situation where someone from France has ever used anything other than WhatsApp. I would hate it if they texted me because then it wouldn’t auto translate.
Standard mobile plans in France have included unlimited SMS since the mid 2000s I’d say. People still use it, but WhatsApp/Messenger are pretty popular too.
French people actually use MMS, which I never thought anyone would.
In my country SMS is free
That’s texting and anyone who says it isn’t is a fucking idiot, unless they’re only communicating via emoji or some wild shit
There’s a lot of people who have never been to, and never even tried to learn what things are like in Europe
And it shows
I would be embarrased dying on a hill i was ignorant of
Says the person claiming sending a text-based message isn’t texting
There’s a lot of people who have never been to, and never even tried to learn what things are like in Europe
And it shows
I would be embarrased dying on a hill i was ignorant of
Repeating yourself just shows how much of a moron you are jfc
True but only if you really specify “SMS”, because if you just say “I’ll text you” they’ll just assume that means WhatsApp/messenger.
This is a very American mindset though because people absolutely do say “I’m going to whatsapp you”.
It’d come down to popularity and ease of use, right? I don’t know if it’s “good” generally to verb a company, but if it’s popular and either easy to say or easy to shorten, it’ll be easy to turn into a verb. Surprisingly, I hear “snapchatted me” not uncommonly, despite not using Snapchat myself.
Twittered me doesn’t work, because dms aren’t the primary use. If someone said “oh i’ll twitter you” I’d assume it’d be a post pinging me or something and think it’s kind of a strange way to say that. If dms were the primary use case of Twitter on release, I think “tweet” probably would have gone there, and if tweet wasn’t decided on early posting on twitter would just become “twittered” or probably more like twiting, has to be short and catchy after all.
iMessage and Facebook Messenger I believe are both default apps (less sure about fb Messenger, might be my memory playing tricks on me). The default message app is “texting”, which I think is why the others get verbed. Also doesn’t help that Messenger isn’t that distinct from “message” which is what text means anyways, and Facebook falls into the Twitter problem. Not a lot of good ways to abbreviate for speech either.
I imagine Signal just isn’t popular enough, I don’t know if I went to a group of people they would know what I meant. Definitely can’t help that “signalling” is a real word with a different meaning that humans regularly do, so if you use it with someone who doesn’t know they’ll just be confused. If you were with a group that had the main chat in signal, I think saying “oh yeah I’ll signal you” wouldn’t be like an outrageous thing to say. Might be different since for Signal users it tends to be a full or almost full replacement, so saying “text” implies “signal”.