Can I sue for insulting people by texting?

You can report the case to the police station, but whether the police station files a case depends on the circumstances of the insult. You may be administratively detained or suspected of insulting and slandering. If it's just an insult by SMS and there are no consequences, it doesn't constitute a "crime". However, they can report to the police station, and the police station will impose administrative penalties on them for detention or fines.

At the same time, you can also sue to the court to apologize, and if the circumstances are serious, you can also request compensation for mental damage. We can only use SMS as evidence. However, whether short messages can be used as evidence is not stipulated by law. However, if the case is reported to the police station, the investigation records of the police station can be used as evidence, which is highly probative.

The law stipulates that anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

1, writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

2. Publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

3. Fabricating facts and falsely accusing others in an attempt to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

4. Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

5. Sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information for many times, interfering with the normal life of others;

6. Peep, sneak shot, eavesdrop and spread others' privacy.