{"id":749,"date":"2024-04-17T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2024-04-17T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T21:42:53","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-texting-and-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/whats-the-difference-between-texting-and-instant-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the difference between texting and instant messaging:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Texting refers to sending and receiving text messages through the old-school&nbsp;<strong>SMS protocol<\/strong>, while instant messaging means communicating using apps like Whatsapp or Facebook messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the main differences between texting and messaging broken down below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Network:<\/strong>&nbsp;Instant messaging communication can only happen with an internet connection, while texting takes place over a cellular network.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Software:<\/strong>&nbsp;You can only send instant messages from a downloadable application like Whatsapp or Facebook messenger, and you cannot send messages across applications while texting only uses the built-in SMS software of your cellular phone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cost:<\/strong>\u00a0text messages are charged per unit \u2013 a single sms has a limitation of 160 characters \u2013 and the cost goes up when sending messages internationally; instant messages are free to send all over the world and have a very high character limitation (a Whatsapp message can have up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-can-I-only-send-65-536-characters-in-a-single-WhatsApp-message-Why-is-it-that-specific-number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">56785 <\/a>characters).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texting refers to sending and receiving text messages through the old-school&nbsp;SMS protocol, while instant messaging means communicating using apps like Whatsapp or Facebook messenger. You can find the main differences between texting and messaging broken down below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chatting-instant-messaging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/vs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}