On a continuum of social presence, the face-to-face medium is considered to have the most social presence, and written, text-based communication the least.

Gunawardena argued further that text-based communications should account for not all users having a level of comfort in its use.

"As such, a representative of the media or a legal commentator who wishes to use live, text-based communications from court may do so without making an application to the court. "

Instant messaging is a set of communication technologies used for text-based communication between two or more participants over the Internet or other types of networks.

Diagram-based notations are the clearest way to show juggling patterns on paper, but as they are based on images, their use is limited in text-based communication.

Despite new features, SMS's simplicity and ubiquity make it the go-to solution for text-based communications from a mobile device.

What has emerged in the latest revision is a series of recommendations on how to monitor text-based communications from these firms.

Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.

They rely on text-based communication and invocation of rules programmed into the MUD.

While text-based communication eliminates audio and visual cues, there are other methods for adding emotion.