text alerts

SMS-based warning messages

Text alerts are notifications delivered to a mobile phone as SMS messages, typically from organizations rather than individuals.

Banks send text alerts about account activity, schools about closures, governments about emergencies.

The format implies urgency or time-sensitivity: Sign up for text alerts to track your package.

Also called text notifications.

Opposites
communication channel

text alertsphone calls

Auditory telecommunication sessions

snail mail · voice calls · fax · voicemail · letters

immediacy and intrusiveness

text alertsdaily digest

Recurring summary of news

technological modernity

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Wired written dispatch

carrier pigeon · town crier · messenger · smoke signals · word of mouth

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G