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Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by Narishma »

eastbound wrote: post #40
flumpcakes wrote: post #3

> 9. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence will reveal where you are This one really surprises me, if someone contacted me without bothering to type a proper sentence I would just think they're an idiot. Everyone I know always starts a sentence with a capital letter, no matter the platform. They all know how to use the shift key. This isn't even gate keeping, people use slang all the time, it is basic English.…

Both my Marroccan employees didn’t capitalize sentences, whereas they capitalized nouns, even in customer-facing apps. Does this concept exist in Arabic languages?

Arabic doesn't have capital letters.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by notacoward »

Fortunately, most Zoomers are very good at code switching. For example, I had a conversation with my daughter about laughing emoji vs. skull and crossbones ("ded") because I was seeing tons of online discourse about it. Her response was "It's not a big deal to me or any of my friends because we know you're old." Well, ouch, but also OK. So I still text in complete sentences etc. and she doesn't and it's all fine.

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Post by theshrike79 »

petesergeant wrote: post #55
bitwize wrote: post #20

Not stated, but implicit: If you have an Android phone, throw it away. No one wants to see your green bubbles, and no one can see if you've seen their texts if you have an Android. Get an iPhone, like 90% of Gen Z. Or gtfo.

I don't have the stats, but this feels pretty US-centric; many (most?) other countries use a different app for chatting... LINE, WhatsApp, Insta, whatever

Yep, the bubble colour thing is 100% America only. "But we have free SMS!" Well so does everybody else around the globe.

We still don't use SMS, because it sucks in every single way compared to bespoke chat apps like Telegram, Signal or WhatsApp.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by kmbfjr »

devnullbrain wrote: post #73

Every time some new generation starts to create its own identity, some proportion of the previous dominant generation reacts defensively by attacking it with wilful ignorance and disdain. It's a tragic way to age. Worse than a ponytail and a motorbike. If you find yourself finding smug, try looking at an old Reddit rage comic/4chan greentext/usenet flamewar, depending on your age.

Conversely, don’t expect the previous generations to quit using capitalization and periods.

Your point is well taken, and thankfully I have neither a pony tail nor a motorcycle, but I am quite likely to observe 40 years of habit and driving in the guardrails of the language.

Or, ya know, don’t read shit into the message that isn’t there.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by cableshaft »

Fatnino wrote: post #41
bitwize wrote: post #20

Not stated, but implicit: If you have an Android phone, throw it away. No one wants to see your green bubbles, and no one can see if you've seen their texts if you have an Android. Get an iPhone, like 90% of Gen Z. Or gtfo.

Who TF is still using sms (or whatever chimera its morphed into) in the year 2023? All, and I really do mean ALL, messages that arrive on my phone are over whatsapp, telegram or discord. The green/blue bubble thing is classist and problematic and bringing it up is frankly embarrassing.

One of my friend groups (that I regularly meet for board game nights) still uses Group SMS for chat. I'm in another one with my parents. I use iMessage with my SO. A few friends reach out to me via SMS still (one even calls me and asks me to call him back in voicemail...that seems so archaic now).

But yeah, that's about it. Everything else is via some messenger service, mostly Discord or Facebook.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by flumpcakes »

wildrhythms wrote: post #84
forgotpwd16 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>if someone contacted me This netiquette is on chatting. And chatting in lower has been the case of choice since early IRC days.

Exactly. I get the feeling that a lot of the grinding reactions to this article in the comments here are from people who never lived in the IRC days, or chatted with their friends on AIM, MSN messenger, etc. Not everything is an email, and young people have found ways to convey subtext in shared digital superset of English, nothing wrong with that.

I used IRC. I always capitalized.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by detourdog »

Gigachad wrote: post #28
dilap wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i'm millenial/gen-x cusp, and they all seemed pretty reasonable and intuitive to me, EXCEPT number 3 -- a good-old fashioned simple smiley is passive-aggressive and cold to gen-z??

That was the most real one imo. The :) is super toxic. Least aggressive would be ^^ or :3

I have seen :) and felt it as toxic. I also don't believe it is inherently toxic.

The surprising part to me is that I have an old pamphlet from Hayes that has a catalog of emoticons as we used to refer to them. This means that :) has changed its meaning in a generation or so... which I never considered that "pictograms" could do that.

It could also be that the context sets the tone and the emoticons are nuanced.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by kmbfjr »

tuxxi wrote: post #8
flumpcakes wrote: post #3

> 9. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence will reveal where you are This one really surprises me, if someone contacted me without bothering to type a proper sentence I would just think they're an idiot. Everyone I know always starts a sentence with a capital letter, no matter the platform. They all know how to use the shift key. This isn't even gate keeping, people use slang all the time, it is basic English.…

typing without capitalization can help to create a more informal, somewhat playful tone. same goes for slight misspellings or abbrs instead of spelling out the full word. its just another way to add a small amount of “tone”.

And quite frankly, it is a pain in the ass to read.
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