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.
KissakiI guess ‘wall of text’ is something different for me than for you, or those you speak of here. For me, it’s when the text has no newlines or paragraphs, making it inaccessible and hard to read or scan.
I mean, there’s always gonna be some variability as to how people understand terms, and I personally lean much more toward your understanding, where its a uh…
Its more reminiscent of an ancient spab of greek or roman text, just, all letters, no spaces, no punctuation, ie, terribly formatted by modern english standards.
But, what I’m trying to describe is more of … a visceral anger or mockery at the concept that someone would read more than about a single paragraph.
Its happening because people’s brains are ‘adapting’ to the short form, brainrot mode of modern social media.
Everything is a clipshow.
If its longer than a clip, its boring, and or excruciating to attempt to parse, for people conditioned by things like TikTok.
Whats_your_reasoningIts happening because people’s brains are ‘adapting’ to the short form, brainrot mode of modern social media.
This is what I feared way back when Twitter first gained popularity. I couldn’t get into it, because the short character limit made it impossible to explain pretty much anything.
Anyway, I’m with you on this. If you’ve got something important or novel to share, it’s probably going to take some explanation to convey it. Short-form social media leads to shallow conversations. I like depth, I like exploring others’ perspectives, and it takes more than 160 characters (or whatever the limits are now) to really reach some subjects.
I say this as someone with unmedicated ADHD - modern people’s attention spans are depressing. I still love watching documentaries that are 2+ hours long, even when YouTube tries to push for 30-second clips of garbage. Thank goodness for Lemmy and Mastodon, offering us the chance to really dive deep into conversations that most social media seems to want to clip short.
Yep.
Its why I never used Twitter.
Well, beyond creating an account when Elon basically accidentally bought it, to scream at him, untill in all likelihood, he personally banned me.
Twitter took off because celebrities and primarily Democrat politicians joined an used it as essentially a microblogging/messaging system.
Our first social steps into modern parasociality.
They were of course eventually more or less thoroughly routed and out-influenced by hordes of right wing 4 chan trolls, who were much, much more adept at understanding how information flow actually works on the internet.
… anyway, yeah, i more or less see lemmy and piefed and mastadon as the last sort of… strung together set of rafts, floating amidst more or less a sea of corporate sponsored, literal insanity, at this point.