To hate it when people say 'in box' when they mean e-mail...

[MrsHelsBels74]

E.g 'inbox me', 'I inboxed her'

It just makes me

It gives me The Rage like nothing else!

Well it's very 90s

Doesn't bother me.

I think it's clarifies how they wish to receive a message and that they wish for it to be private.

So many ways these days of sending someone a message.
Text
Twitter
Facebook
Work Email
Personal Email
Mumsnet
the list goes on

Gawd - I've never heard that expression
Oh hell - more new-techno-hell to content with

My ex boss used to say 'ping me those figures'. I used to try flicking them with one finger across the desk every time he said it and he never worked out what I was trying to do. Muppet.

My boss says ping too it annoys me no end.

I actually prefer "inbox me" to "e-mail me".

I hate it too! I thought I was the only one, it really gives me the rage.

I thought Ping made golf clubs?!

But if you wanted someone to write to you you wouldn't say 'letterbox me' would you?

Agreed, HelsBels. The response would be 'please send me a letter'.

All this corporatecrapspeak is irritating!

I've never heard the expression, no different from email imo.

I think what really gets on my nerves about it is that 99% of the time I only see it on attention seeking posts.

I.e.

OP: "sum ppl should keep their noses out and stop trying to stir"
Friend: "what's up Hun?"
OP: "don't want to say on here too many nosy people, I'll inbox you"

I've been a lot calmer since I started hiding some peoples updates.

do they?

Someone I work with says it & it makes me stabby (which is ironic seeing as the word stabby also makes people )

I have never heard that. Nouns as verbs generally not a good thing.

I agree with quesadilla

Nouns are "thing" words; verbs are "doing" words - and the distinction should be preserved!

Maybe it's an age thing. I have a 17yo 'friend' on FB (she goes to 6th form with my nephew) who always posts this on FB between the hours of 11pm and 4am.

At 31yo, I'm well out-of-the-vernacular-loop.

And fucking glad I am, too

Yeah, verbing weirds nouns.

I thought it was like PM me. Not email but the private messaging function on whatever they're on, usually Facebook.

oh, and I agree with pain: the girl I know does it with complete self-aware, attention-seeking-ness, coupled with close-up, doe-eyed selfies.

Agree BigPaws - to inbox is to get a message sent to the place called 'inbox' on Facebook. Can't call it email as it isn't email. I've never seen it used outside of facebook.

I know people who use it outside FB. And why can't you say PM me instead of inbox me. The FB explanation makes even less sense

I just think different platforms call it different things. Here is PM, twitter is DM, text is message, Facebook is inbox...