texters
Thumb-typing phone users
Texters are people who send text messages.
The word usually implies habitual or frequent messaging: Texters kept their phones under their desks during class.
Someone might be described as a fast texter or a slow texter based on their typing speed or response time.
Handheld touchscreen computers
- keyboardsButton grids for input
- touchscreensPressure-sensitive display interfaces
- appsMobile software, briefly
- iMessageApple's native texting platform
WhatsApp · SMS · Android · iPhone · WiFi · notifications · vibrate · silent mode
Sending written digital communications
- typingEntering text via keyboard
- chattingInformal verbal exchange
- conversationsSpoken exchanges between people
- repliesAnswers given back
threads · group chats · notifications · emojis · abbreviations · autocorrect · read receipts · typing bubbles
Moving with haste
- constantFixed, unvarying quantity
- serialOccurring in ordered succession
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
- distractedUnable to concentrate
secretive · slow · chronic · late-night · excessive · habitual · frequent · occasional
People aged thirteen to nineteen
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen-ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- digital nativesThose raised with technology
- commutersDaily work travelers
students · friends · couples · coworkers · long-distance · night owls · multitaskers · introverts
smartphones
Handheld touchscreen computers
- keyboardsButton grids for input
- touchscreensPressure-sensitive display interfaces
- appsMobile software, briefly
iMessage · WhatsApp · SMS · Android · iPhone · WiFi · notifications · vibrate · silent mode · swipe typing
messaging
Sending written digital communications
- typingEntering text via keyboard
- chattingInformal verbal exchange
- conversationsSpoken exchanges between people
replies · threads · group chats · notifications · emojis · abbreviations · autocorrect · read receipts · typing bubbles · send
rapid
Moving with haste
- constantFixed, unvarying quantity
- serialOccurring in ordered succession
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
distracted · secretive · slow · chronic · late-night · excessive · habitual · frequent · occasional · obsessive
teenagers
People aged thirteen to nineteen
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen-ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- digital nativesThose raised with technology
commuters · students · friends · couples · coworkers · long-distance · night owls · multitaskers · introverts · remote workers
- back row seating targetslatecomers, couples, sleepers, troublemakers, observers
- habit typessmokers, gamblers, nail biters, procrastinators, coffee drinkers
- traffic offendersspeeders, drunk drivers, red light runners, tailgaters, distracted drivers
- online usersnetizen, casual user, new user, follower, active user
- drunk textedSent messages while impaired
- double textedMessaged again unanswered