Editing Text messaging (section)

=== Typing awareness indicators ===
[[File:Left on read.jpg|thumb|Mural of a text message reading "I love you" and an ellipsis as a typing awareness indicator on the left (France, 2021)]]
In some text messaging software products, an [[ellipsis]] is displayed while the interlocutor is typing characters. The feature has been referred to as a "typing awareness indicator",<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Michael E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiQlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |title=Boredom Studies Reader: Frameworks and Perspectives |last2=Haladyn |first2=Julian Jason |date=2016-10-04 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-40361-6 |pages=147 |language=en}}</ref> for which patents have been filed since the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SFGATE |first=Dianne de Guzman |date=2020-11-20 |title=The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature |url=https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/typing-message-indicators-Jerry-Cuomo-IBM-text-15740983.php |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=SFGATE |language=en-US}}</ref>