text chat
Type to talk
Text chat is real-time written conversation, typically through an app or website rather than SMS.
The term distinguishes typed messages from voice or video communication: I prefer text chat over phone calls, The game has text chat but no voice chat.
Text chat can refer to the activity or the interface itself.
- messageTransmitted communication
- typingEntering text via keyboard
- conversationExchange of spoken ideas
- emojiDigital pictograph for messaging
- bubbleAir-filled film sphere
notification · ping · unread messages · reply · send · inbox · thread · online · status · away · typing indicator · typing dots · read receipt · DM · sliding into DMs · instant · chatroom · keyboard
- talkstalk, conversation, discussion, dialogue, discourse
- messagingmessage, send, reply, inbox, DM
- online gamingonline gaming, online multiplayer, co-op, multiplayer games, clans
- chat roomschatrooms, channels, IRC, lobby, instant messaging
- chitchatsmall talk, banter, chitchat, chatter, pleasantries
- game settingsdifficulty level, easy mode, hard mode, expert mode, brightness
text chatphone call
Remote voice conversation
voice call · voice chat · video call · audio call · telephone conversation
text chatemail
Digital written communication
letter · written correspondence · snail mail · memo · formal letter
text, chat, texts, textual, textually, texture, textile, textiles, chats