BluetreefrogSo apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?
sp3ctr4lUh, just in general, people tend to react horrifically to long messages, ‘walls of text’.
… even on discussion boards, like here on lemmy, or as a first intro message to someone on some kind of dating app/site.
I’ve been using the internet since the mid 90s.
It did not used to be like this.
People thought of messages as letters, like emails.
Now, a lot of people will get viscerally angry or disgusted in basically nearly any digital context if you send a message that’s longer than roughly double the original Twitter character limit.
Hooray for normalizing slogans and soundbites in lieu of actual discourse, hooray for kicking off the trend of destroying our collective capacity to read multiple paragraphs at a time, great job Dorsey.
flamieraI blame the early stages of texting when the dawn of cellphones began, when they became more easily accessible.
Then, I blame Twitter and Facebook for character limits. So, it forced people to dumb down everything they try to talk about.
Then, I blame TikTok/Vine/YouTube Shorts for even worsening the attention span of people.
So now it's like, if you attempt to explain things in great detail, you'll get one or both reactions. One being, people being snarkily towards you about how the post is at length and it is one thing for your post to be a giant blob of text with no structure. Nobody likes reading that, even I don't like reading that and I can get wordy.
The other reaction are people who just complain, bitch, moan and cry about how long the post is.
The possibly optimistic way of looking at this is that certified morons will let you know they are such, so, writing something of moderate length effectively serves as a kind of shit-test.
Also, people seem to be mostly unaware that different formatting standards exist and make more sense for different viewing contexts.
I write the vast majority of my lemmy posts on mobile, because I engage with lemmy via mobile.
Every once in a while I get someone screeching at me about horrible formatting… it looks fine on mobile.
Sometimes I get much more polite critiques or suggestions, and then I just usually explain ‘oh I use lemmy on mobile’ and that is generally an amicable conversation…
But a good chunk of people are seemingly baffled and offended by the idea that anyone could be doing anything in a manner different from how they, personally, do it.