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Text-based teasing is playful, sometimes flirtatious banter conducted through SMS and online messaging. In pragmatics and computer-mediated communication (CMC), scholars describe it as targeted, non-serious talk that relies on ambiguity and paralinguistic proxies (e.g., emoji, typography, timing) to signal a “play frame” and to manage face concerns in the absence of co-present cues.^[1][2][3]

Terminology and scope

The term is used for playful, targeted exchanges rather than general joking. In CMC settings, participants use deniable, light mockery and compliments to display interest while preserving face; the same line can be affiliative or aggravating depending on relationship and local norms.^[3][4] In this usage, text-based teasing is distinct from Sexting (explicit sexual content) and from harassment, which lacks a mutually understood “play frame”.^[4]

History

By 2000, SMS was already used for romance in the UK: an Ipsos MORI survey reported that 24% of texters used SMS to flirt and 37% had texted “I love you.”^[5] As smartphones and dating apps spread, digitally mediated courtship became common. A large U.S. study of marriages formed in 2005–2012 reported that roughly one-third began online, with slightly higher marital satisfaction among couples who met online.^[6] Among teens, messaging and social media became routine spaces for showing romantic interest by the mid-2010s.^[7] Broader syntheses in digital media sociology document the normalization of app-based dating and private messaging for relationship initiation and maintenance.^[8]

Communication features

CMC changes how teasing is produced and interpreted: asynchrony and message persistence enable lightweight, low-risk overtures but also increase the chance that playful lines are re-read out of context.^[2] In the absence of prosody and gesture, participants lean on emoji/emoticons, punctuation, elongation, formatting, and message timing/placement to cue stance and soften face-threats.^[1][3] Conversation-analytic work on dating-app chats shows that wink-set emoji are used as flirt moves, and that their meaning is intentionally ambiguous, varying with sequential position and local practice.^[9]

Social functions and risks

Playful teasing can display liking, test reciprocity, and help manage closeness when a “play frame” is shared.^[3][4] At the same time, under-specified cues and loosened turn-taking can lead to misalignment; playful messages may be recontextualised due to persistence, searchability, and audience shifts.^[2][8] Studies of teens also note that messaging practices around flirting sit alongside concerns about pressure, unwanted messages, and boundary-setting.^[7]

See also

• Teasing
• Flirting
• Computer-mediated communication
• Pragmatics
• Emoji

References

1. Whitty, Monica T. (2003). "Cyber-flirting: Playing at love on the Internet". Theory & Psychology. 13 (3): 339–357. doi:10.1177/0959354303013003003.
2. Georgakopoulou, Alexandra; Spilioti, Tereza, eds. (2016). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Routledge. ISBN 9780415642491.
3. Attardo, Salvatore, ed. (2017). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor. Routledge. ISBN 9781138843066.
4. Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z., eds. (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7. ISBN 9781137375070.
5. "I Just Text To Say I Love You". Ipsos MORI. 5 September 2000. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
6. Cacioppo, John T.; Cacioppo, Stephanie; Gonzaga, Gian C.; Ogburn, Elizabeth L.; VanderWeele, Tyler J. (2013). "Marital satisfaction and break-ups differ across on-line and off-line meeting venues". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (25): 10135–10140. doi:10.1073/pnas.1222447110. PMID 23733955.
7. "Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships". Pew Research Center. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
8. Rohlinger, Deana A.; Sobieraj, Sarah, eds. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197510636.
9. Gibson, Will (2024). "Flirting and winking in Tinder chats: Emoji, ambiguity, and sequential actions". Internet Pragmatics. doi:10.1075/ip.00107.gib. Retrieved 22 September 2025.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Text-based teasing (September 24)

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