> I never thought of this until a friend asked "Were you outside when texting me?"
The only thing that surprised me was that "outside" simply means "outside your home" now.
Gen Z Netiquettes
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#192I think emojis are an objectively better communication tool. You can pack more emotion and nuances in emojis with much fewer characters. Yet I hate when I see them... Probably because I'm getting older and becoming less tolerant of young culture. Sad Edit: I added a few emojis in the original message, but it seems automatically removed—another nice thing for hacker news.
I’ve seen emojis completely banned on some codes of conduct because of potential offence. The OK hand symbol, the basic smiley face, or using the white skin tone on Slack could all be seen as hostile by some groups of people. Yeah it’s a bit crazy but this is one of the necessities of inviting lots of diverse groups of different ages and backgrounds to work together - there’s less of a base of shared communication and more risk of angering others, so communication must become more formal and defensive (at least until people establish good will with each other).
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#193Honestly, I can’t keep up with so much implied context about everything I type. It sounds exhausting.
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#194I'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…
I interact with a fair number of people who are either older Gen Z, or younger Millennials. They don't follow half of the rules in the blog post (example: you become un-dateable if you don't use lots of emojis on dating apps... seriously?). Of the rest, many have been around for decades (example: imperfect capitalization and punctuation does, in fact, imply informality, always has).
If you read someone's text and then also read their Instagram story and you still haven't replied, that's fine. If anything it's a bit of a power move. But really it's just what ends up happening when you're busy and don't have time to dick around on social media and overthink shit.
The article smacks of a mild anxiety disorder which is a common affliction of youth (sadly increasingly these days it's not so mild). The author would do well to ignore other people's petty shit and spend the next decade preoccupied with kicking ass at whatever he's best at.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're being overly harsh on this when it comes to informal communication. As others pointed out, capitalization is similar to white space, punctuation, and other tools that English has when it comes to informal communication. Especially online, you can invoke a lot of imagery and thoughts and emotions by simply playing with the rules of English in a live-chat setting. Try to imagine in a chat the following s…
I work with a lot of people from abroad, where English isn't their first language. I also have a lot of friends who are foreign too. Trying to read into the "tone" is pointless. Simple sentences, with punctuation and grammar goes a long way. A benefit of not having tone imbued as some intangible quality of how a sentence is written down makes it very easy to communicate with them. If they are pissed off, they just sa…
I work with the exact same setup and demographics across the globe, from Eastern Europe to China to India to Japan to the US to South America.
These aren't US specific Gen-Z rules, these are quite global. This is happening far outside the scope you're limiting it to, and it matters.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go full boomer and send :-)
in the German speaking sphere we used to use ggg to mean laughing, and the more g-s, the harder you were laughing
It comes from grins translating to “grinning”. My generation grew up with ICQ which had smileys. This thing with writing g was more common in online communities like online games and chatrooms and was more an internet subculture thing than mainstream knowledge along my peers.
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#197To be fair given the context of snapchatting, tiktoking, voicemessaging, online dating [... stories, filters ...] written text is simply demoted to snippets of additional information/expressiveness.
Sentence-s, well structured sentences (with it punctuation marks and capitalization) are in this context like evoking latin phrases let alone a fortiori whole paragraphs.
If one takes chatgpt into the equation writing essays will be as calculating without a calculator for the next adolescent generation and used mainly as intimidation given the current education system - or preferably a playful approach at pattern recognition emerging from formal rules conveying abstract concepts.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a lot more to gen z than was on this blog post, but what is there seems like a recipe for creating personality disorders.
pls elaborate. The blog post was very informative for me. Learning even more would be nice. If it's good I'll submit it to the blogpost's author as he asked for at the end of the blogpost.
Not using any punctuation and relying on pictograms instead of definable words, and then getting hung up on who (and how many people) respond to a social post, and in what way and with what timing?
Holy shit, no wonder they're all so perpetually miserable.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a bizarre take. Who do you work with? The majority of people I’ve worked with of all ages at various companies default to all-lowercase in casual communication, including some of the most intelligent and expressive people. As the other commenter said, it’s perceived as friendlier and more casual. Messages with capitalisation and completely correct grammar in these settings comes off as stilted and corporate.
Perceived as friendly and casual by idiots.
That's needlessly aggressive. :-/
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#200Is this written sarcastically?
Those are all unironically true. But what does it mean when the third boyfriend of my first boyfriend whose first boyfriend I was keeps watching my Instagram stories but not following me, considering my first boyfriend blocked me everywhere? Are they sitting there together laughing at my stories? Does he watch me out of low self confidence? He must know I know he is watching them. Should I write him? That kind of wou…
They're in for a rude awakening when they enter the work world.