 Let's talk about confusing phrases. Basically when I say that, confusing phrases, they're things that I assume people understand when we talk because we use these phrases in ways that are generally meant for one thing but really we're not using the right phrases. And I'll give you a couple of examples. So one of them is data. I've talked to people and they're confused on when they're using data on their phone. Okay, data is just information. You have data on your phone but when we talk about data, we're talking about data transfer. But not just data transfer, we use data. When we say data, usually we mean cellular data. On my phone, are you using Wi-Fi or data? Well either way, whether I'm using Wi-Fi or I'm using cellular signal, I'm using data, I'm transferring data, I'm transferring information. But in general, when we talk about this, when we say data and we're referring to our cell phone, we're talking about using data using the cellular signal on your phone. And I can see how this can be confusing. But at the same time, I don't understand how it can be confusing because this is something we do every day and you would think by now people would just know. But yes, if I am downloading something to my phone and it's using data whether I'm using Wi-Fi or cellular or even if I'm using a USB cable or if I have some network plugged into my phone, I'm transferring data. That is always data. But when we say data in just regular conversation and we're talking about our phones and someone says or using Wi-Fi or data, I can see how that can be confusing. But when they say data, they mean you're using the cellular signal. So again, there's little antennas in your phone and one's Wi-Fi and one is cellular. A lot of people are confused on what Wi-Fi is. Wi-Fi is just the wireless, your local network. The Wi-Fi has nothing. Wi-Fi is not internet. Internet is the thing you connect to through your ISP. That's your internet service provider, Comcast or whoever. Wi-Fi is just what the signal being sent out that connects your device to other devices in the building you're in. And from there, it might connect to a router and go out to the internet. Wi-Fi is not internet. You can have Wi-Fi and no internet and why would you do that? To communicate with other devices on your network. Something I do all the time. I transfer files back and forth from my desktop to my phone or to my laptop and my phone and my laptop and my desktop to the server I have running in the other room. A lot of people go, I don't do any of that. Well, you might use something like a Chromecast or something like that and I don't have a Chromecast or Amazon Fire Stick and those do go out to the internet for doing certain things but you should be able to stream stuff directly from one device to another on your local network. And your local network, the wireless part of that in 99% of cases is going to be Wi-Fi. So I can see how that can be confusing. Also, people get confused when we talk about downloading. Downloading is the process of getting something to your phone. It's different than saving something to your device. Streaming, what streaming is, whether you're watching a video or listening to audio and you're streaming it, that just means you're using it as it's being downloaded. You're downloading a video and you're watching it while it's being downloaded. You're listening to the music as it's being downloaded. There was just a power surge in my house. You're either watching a video as it's downloading or you're listening to audio and you're still downloading it. A lot of people think, oh, if I'm streaming it, I'm not downloading it. No, that's not true. Either way, you're downloading it. You're retrieving that information from another device, either on your local network or the internet. You are downloading it. You may not be saving it to your device and that's why a lot of people get confused. They say, oh, I've downloaded it to my device. Well, no, you saved it for offline usage. Just because you downloaded it doesn't mean it's saved to your device. There's nothing people look at my phone. I'll send someone a link to a picture or something like that or a video and I've literally been asked by people, is this on my device? Well, yes. Yes, it's on your device. You're looking at it right now. Is it saved to your device for offline usage? Maybe not. You might be looking at it and it might be in RAM which is a type of memory that isn't permanent. It's going to be wiped out. It's just there for while you're using it. Is it saved to your device? Maybe it's saved temporarily to a temp file. But if you're looking at it, if you see a picture or you're listening to a sound from your device, well, it's on your device. It is. It just may not be stored there permanently. When I say permanently, I mean until you erase it, it's not stored to your storage in a lot of cases. That's the difference. But don't ask me, is this on my device? Yes, it is. If I can see it on your phone, it's on your device. That's just common sense, you would think, but it confuses people that if they're viewing something on a web page. I want to give another example. Text messages. Text messages. That's very, very vague because any message that is text, whether it's a chat, email could even be considered a text message. The term text message means it's a message that is text. But normally when we talk about text message, we're talking about one of two things. We're talking about SMS message, which is message service, I believe, or MMS, which is multimedia service. Multimedia service, I think. Anyway, a true, what we are talking about when we say text message is probably where you're usually talking about SMS, which is just you're sending text from one device to another. Usually phones, pages. But that's what when we talk about text messages, that's what we're usually talking about. And then we also cross over to MMS. When you're using your texting application on your phone, it is also probably capable of doing MMS, which is multimedia, which is if you're sending a text that has a picture or a video or sometimes audio files. Anything that's not just text, that's a multimedia message. And that's a technology that's been around for over 20 years. It is very, very limited, but we try to make it do a lot more than it can. It was supposed to add features to what regular text messages didn't. And I love and hate it at the same time. I hate it because it is so limited, but companies try to integrate these features that it can't do. And so then a lot of people go, oh, you try to send me this picture or this on that on a text. Oh, because you have an iPhone and I have an Android. It's none of that. It doesn't have to do with you having an Android device or me having whatever. It's just that depending on what application and you can use lots of different messaging applications, they have different functionality and they use these MMS messages in different ways. And another thing that is traditional SMS text messages can't do group messages. So if you're using a device or an application that can only do SMS, it's going to, or even if it can support MMS, sometimes your settings might be set to fake multi-media messages, group messages with SMS and basically you send a text to a group and it's going to send them each as individual messages to people and then they might reply and not everyone gets in. That's why when you're in group messages, sometimes people are replying and you miss a message. One of those reasons is because people have different settings on their phones and their applications are going to use different. It's not that you have a different phone than I do. We both have the same exact phone but we're using different applications that's going to handle those things differently. And multi-media messages, the MMS messages, have features to do group messages but it's kind of iffy and that's why I try to avoid group messages as much as possible but a lot of people do and then they're always complaining that, oh, so and so sending a message down to getting two or three copies of every message they're sending it's because you're trying to relay these messages through different devices and it's just, it's a mess. So even though the MMS messages, the multi-media services, the MMS text messages add in functionality. It also added a lot of confusion and annoyances. So it's just one of those things you have to live with because the only other option is using a text message that has a chat application and then there's companies, a lot of texting applications nowadays have chat functionality which is different than SMS, different than MMS. It's using their servers and this is where it does become different where if you're using Apple's Messenger you're going to be using, it will integrate it with Apple's servers to add functionality for other people who are using Apple's servers but if you're not on that then you lose that functionality and it can cause confusion but it's not just Apple, that's the same with Google, Google has services like that like their Google Hangouts, those chats and if you're using certain services, Google services you can still do like you can't send text messages through Hangouts, you can if you're using Google Fi or Google Voice you can still do that and then you have Google Voice and you have all these things and they try to add because again, text messages have been around for 30 years they are very very limited and I'm kind of getting off my topic of confusing phrases but still I'm trying to explain how we use this term text message but we're integrating all these things into it and yes, text message is a very broad range but everyone thinks it's this but it's not, it can be all of this and to be more specific we can say text message or MMS message or chat but that confuses people because you can do a video chat you can do an audio chat I mean that's basically what a phone call is is an audio chat and so using the term text message makes it easier in conversation to say what you need to say but then it confuses people when something doesn't make sense to them you're like well, we're saying text message and I mean SMS message well see if it's text it's this, if it has a picture it's that but if you're connected to the internet and you're using this application now it's using a chat but it doesn't and some programs, some companies they make a very hard view to realize the difference for example, a buddy of mine just switched from an iPhone over to an Android device and he sent someone a text the person replied to them but he didn't get the text on his new phone it went to his old iPhone which isn't active anymore and it's because Apple was trying to integrate and he sent it as an SMS message to this guy from his new phone Apple went, oh, well he has an Apple device when you reply we're going to send it over there and I have no number of people who do this they don't get all these messages they get rid of their old iPhone sometimes they go to a new iPhone and I don't know if they just switched accounts I have a family member who weren't getting messages for like 6 months and they said, oh my phone doesn't have that feature it was response and it was Apple was and again, lots of companies do this but I'm using Apple as an example here because they're very very bad about it they try to think for you they try to go, oh, we know what's best for you so we're going to assume that you want this and they're trying to send all the stuff to a device that is inactive and really that stuff shouldn't be linked to a device it should be linked to an account, blah blah blah but we need to be clearer when we talk about different things so again, those are just a few examples text message data, a download we use these terms improperly all the time and that's why it can be confusing but it just makes conversation easier in most conversations but then when you start to get technical it makes things confusing so I'm sure if I said here I could think of a lot more if you can think of some, put them in the comments below where we use these general terms for things and we're kind of using them improperly and for the most part it makes conversations easier but when you start getting technical it makes things confusing so anyway, thanks for watching as always I hope that you have a great day