digital messaging
Typing to communicate
Digital messaging is communication through electronic text rather than voice or physical mail.
The term covers email, texting, instant messaging, and chat platforms—any system where typed messages travel through networks.
She prefers digital messaging to phone calls.
The phrase often appears in discussions of workplace communication or when distinguishing from older methods like fax or postal mail.
- textingSending typed mobile messages
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- SMSMobile text protocol
- instantBriefest unit of time
- notificationFormal notice given
ping · bubble · emoji · double tap · typing · typing indicator · send · inbox · push notification · thread · reply · DM · sliding into DMs · WhatsApp · conversation · unread · screenshot · group chat
digital messagingphone call
Remote voice conversation
voice call · telephone conversation · verbal communication · snail mail · oral communication
digital messagingface-to-face meeting
physical presence · being there · presence · handwritten note
digital, digit, digits, digitally, digitize, digitized, digitizing, digitization, digitizer