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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
If you're using a full keyboard, you aren't "texting", you're typing.
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By "full keyboard", I really meant an approximately 44 key keypad, not necessarily "full" as in full-sized 44+ keyboard. (Sorry for my sloppy phrasing).
The definitions of texting, chatting, emailing are fairly well accepted: if you receive the message as a phone system text on your cellphone (commonly referred to as SMS or short message service), then the sender was "texting": even if the sender was scribbling the text in with Graffiti). If you are using a window to see a continuous text dialog, typically over the Internet, then you are "chatting".
If you receive the message on an email account without going through an SMS service, then the sender emailed you.
The definitions of the terms "typing" and "keying" may have to do with the number of keys involved or the number of digits used: is someone that uses with one finger on a full sized keyboard, typing or keying?
I usually think of "typing" as something one does at a full-sized 44+ key keyboard using all (or at least most) of the fingers on both hands. Someone that does not use all the fingers on both hands or needs to look at the keys to find them is usually characterized as not knowing how to type. I.e., someone whom would be flunked by a typing class is actually keying and not typing.