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[โ€“] spiritedaway@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Haha, one for me is "DM" (direct message), I grew up around forums so for me it's "PM".

I always wondered if they changed it so that the plural isn't pms.

[โ€“] stilgar@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I have a feeling this one comes from Instagram and that's how it entered the mainstream lexicon. But I find both PM and DM easy to understand.

[โ€“] Pokethat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, it's like Kleenex versus tissue paper. Maybe one is more on brand, but everyone knows exactly what you mean either way.

My intuition tells me that a direct message is a message directly to my username inbox, and a private message is basically the same thing but maybe encrypted or something.

[โ€“] pascal@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me. I always think to PM as private message and DM as dungeon master, and that's it.

I accepted the term DM as directed message because in fact there was no such thing as Private Message.