Gen Z Netiquettes

Post by FinnKuhn » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #127

butler14 wrote: post #37

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Logged in to say the same; all of these have ultimately formed back in IRC days and have aged remarkably well since The only one that is new (and therefore annoying to me as an Old Internet Man) is the insistance of adding emojis into every sentence For a while I could guess someones approximate age because of it, but now some of my 40+ friends have started emojiing like a 14 year olds too

The absolutely annoying thing about emojis is that different platforms render them in different ways.

Post by FinnKuhn » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 1:56 PM UTC

Fatnino wrote: post #36

Gigachad wrote: post #27

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Go full boomer and send :-)

:o)

Post by rom-antics » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

gonehome wrote: post #130

proto-n wrote: post #116

I'm far from gen z, but I spent a lot of time communicating through chat in the past ~20 years, and I've gotta say, to me, most of this is not "Gen Z" stuff, but "chat native" stuff. It becomes pretty obvious pretty soon when somebody doesn't really know the (for lack of a better word) language of these small nuances and a bunch of others, like message length, timings, etc. It's not done to be edgy, or to fit in, or…

A lot of it isn’t just chat native stuff imo. All the rules around instagram likes and reposting, the rules around “k”, that “:)” is passive aggressive etc. A lot of that feels juvenile which makes sense if it’s a gen z post. I’d guess it’ll stop once out of teens and early to mid twenties. I think when people are more secure/confident they stop doing as much meta analysis of this kind.

Post by throwaway98797 » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

_Algernon_ wrote: post #126

hollowcelery wrote: post #105

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Emojis are a more granular and expressive form of the more traditional lol, rofl, haha, :), :(. They’re a useful side channel for expressing tone.

They're really not though, because they render differently on different devices. If I send a gun emoji, it may render as a squirt gun for you for instance. Very different meanings.

Post by rom-antics » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

Jach wrote: post #111

butler14 wrote: post #37

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Logged in to say the same; all of these have ultimately formed back in IRC days and have aged remarkably well since The only one that is new (and therefore annoying to me as an Old Internet Man) is the insistance of adding emojis into every sentence For a while I could guess someones approximate age because of it, but now some of my 40+ friends have started emojiing like a 14 year olds too

It's been amusing to see the evolution of things like 'lol' in particular go from ubiquitous to very much frowned on and now back full circle to being a lot more common. I don't think "xD" and friends will come back though, especially with emojis.