Why do people call it DM?
Why do people call it DM?
I mean... I come from the forum scene and they were always called PMs, as in Private Message. What in the hell does DM stand for and when did things change from people calling them PMs to DMs.
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I think Twitter might have been the first time I saw DM used but it stands for direct message.
52 0 ReplyTwitter is where it started.
And every 'hip' person started talking about sliding into someone's DM and it became the default application.
PM is still used in professional settings sometimes.
16 0 ReplyI somehow managed to read "default" as "segfault."
… I may have spent too much time debugging annoying shit today
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