I remember when I started encountering somewhat younger adults verbally spell out chat acronyms like “lmao” and “rofl.” I thought it was hilarious, but eventually realized there had been a social shift. Interactions had become online-first, and for some younger people that was basically all of it, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.
I had a younger guy at my job ask me if I was mad at him once because I used punctuation in a Teams message. Nah, bro, I’m just in my 40s.
Go harder and use a semicolon next time.
Pretty common. Experimentally, it seems the implicit formula many use for IM is something like
Which is how, to someone using this formula internally, “Great.” can denote exasperation, “Thanks.” can imply strained manners, and so forth 🤷
Texting people who never experienced talking to other humans is really exhausting
I remember when I started encountering somewhat younger adults verbally spell out chat acronyms like “lmao” and “rofl.” I thought it was hilarious, but eventually realized there had been a social shift. Interactions had become online-first, and for some younger people that was basically all of it, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.