According to the book Because Internet which is about different communication styles on the internet, boomers do that because that's how they wrote on post cards and shit. It's supposed to be less ominous and more "yadda yadda." They intend it to be more casual. They use quotation marks to emphasize things as well, so you always get the sarcastic seeming stuff like '"PLEASE DON'T" jump in the trash compactor.' I'm sure millennials have some stupid seeming slang and habits but I wouldn't know cause that's who I always communicate with lol (oh you know what, I did have a classmate who insisted on ending every sentence with a question mark? like the written equivalent of up-talk? which was too funny.)
You know what? I talked to my little gen z sister and she said I have an ominous habit too! I'm one of those psychos that uses capitalization and periods in texts and tries to keep my whole message in as few texts as possible. Apparently that's not a thing for them and it comes off as SERIOUS and YOURE IN TROUBLE if you use periods and capitalize and give out big blocks of text instead of seperate texts for each thought. On the other hand I do not get discord speak and I can't wrap my head around the speed of discord chat or twitch chat, so there you go.
I do both those types of texting depending on my mood and the tone of the conversation. I think the longer messages I sometimes send (and by long I mean like 2 complete sentences) never actually get read lol.
According to the book Because Internet which is about different communication styles on the internet, boomers do that because that's how they wrote on post cards and shit. It's supposed to be less ominous and more "yadda yadda." They intend it to be more casual. They use quotation marks to emphasize things as well, so you always get the sarcastic seeming stuff like '"PLEASE DON'T" jump in the trash compactor.' I'm sure millennials have some stupid seeming slang and habits but I wouldn't know cause that's who I always communicate with lol (oh you know what, I did have a classmate who insisted on ending every sentence with a question mark? like the written equivalent of up-talk? which was too funny.)
You know what? I talked to my little gen z sister and she said I have an ominous habit too! I'm one of those psychos that uses capitalization and periods in texts and tries to keep my whole message in as few texts as possible. Apparently that's not a thing for them and it comes off as SERIOUS and YOURE IN TROUBLE if you use periods and capitalize and give out big blocks of text instead of seperate texts for each thought. On the other hand I do not get discord speak and I can't wrap my head around the speed of discord chat or twitch chat, so there you go.
Ive definitely been in sensitive conversations over text and been like "hmm, should I end with a period? Nah, too formal."
I do both those types of texting depending on my mood and the tone of the conversation. I think the longer messages I sometimes send (and by long I mean like 2 complete sentences) never actually get read lol.