Warning for brmiller1976: Trolling

[Dave Blake]

Post: I'm starting to regret my decision to buy a Lumia 920
User: brmiller1976
Infraction: Trolling
Points: 0

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[INFO]? Trolling - Do not post inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages to provoke users into responding in a negative way. Calling another member a troll is also a form of trolling.[/INFO]

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Original Post:

[QUOTE="iamtim, post: 1807579, member: 201315"]Coming to the party a bit late, but yeah, for all intents and purposes it is the same thing. My GF and I used to chat on Yahoo Messenger all the time, once we got unlimited texts we switched over to texting. The only difference is we can text anywhere, as opposed to just on the desktop.[/QUOTE]

Ignore him. He is trolling. SMS is just another form of IM -- it uses data packets in between voice packets to send short messages via the mobile network (typically IP-switched), just like IM on the desktop.

The reason it's called "instant messaging" is because it evolved on the PC in the mid 1990s after people complained of the latency around e-mail. The first IM protocols, AIM and Lotus SameTime, were developed to make messaging "instant" and not "delayed" by e-mail servers. SMS is a form of IM.