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Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by switch007 »

groestl wrote: post #74
switch007 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine trying to date a gen z with this much anxiety. And when you suggest preferring to meet in person instead of partaking in this absurd communication style, they get even more anxious and suspicious.

If you don't want to text, send wrong cues when you do, and want to move quickly to meet in person, hell yeah this will look suspicious. Millenial here.

Phone addicted millennial, I guess? If we're making assumptions about each other...

That's fine, I didn't want to date those people. You know why? People are really good at portraying themselves as a totally different character over text. It's fake. It's all fake. It's harder to be fake in person.

I'm engaged now to someone who isn't triggered by an omitted period, isn't addicted to his phone, isn't obsessed with social media. Totally on my level. It's awesome. (Not a gen Z, obviously). Post-covid dating was a total shitshow.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by amelius »

andsoitis wrote: post #189
amelius wrote: post #146

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This is not true. The actual form has meaning too. Extreme example: if someone sends a romantic message, they typically don't want it rendered in a font typically used for the title on a horror DVD.

does that commonly happen though? emoji exist in unicode so meaning should remain consistent. in fact, here is how popular emoji render across platforms: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

It doesn't matter. Communication is often sensitive enough to not mess with it in any way. And there is no reason why emoji could not be transmitted without mutations (their size is negligible).

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by anthk »

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.

90%.

You wish. Maybe in America. The rest of the world not. SMS are either for SPAM, for secure login PINs and for goverment advices. Not used by anyone anymore.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by mechanical_bear »

flumpcakes wrote: post #158
wildrhythms wrote: post #84

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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.

Same. Also same experience for me on ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by maximus-decimus »

> Your friend texts you "I am happy for you." --> Highly likely they hate you and even wish the worst for you, but they have to text anyway cuz every friend in the group is doing so.

People must really think I hate them lol.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by groestl »

switch007 wrote: post #201
groestl wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want to text, send wrong cues when you do, and want to move quickly to meet in person, hell yeah this will look suspicious. Millenial here.

Phone addicted millennial, I guess? If we're making assumptions about each other... That's fine, I didn't want to date those people. You know why? People are really good at portraying themselves as a totally different character over text. It's fake. It's all fake. It's harder to be fake in person. I'm engaged now to someone who isn't triggered by an omitted period, isn't addicted to his phone, isn't obsessed with soc…

Even though I used a generic you, I didn't make assumptions about your person, only gave feedback on that communication style, which would raise a red flag even in my non-z generation. The rest of your post... I honestly don't know what's happening there.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by flumpcakes »

csydas wrote: post #195
flumpcakes wrote: post #180

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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.

I'm not sure what you are saying here, do people at your work write/communicate like Gen-Zers? Does Amber in HR get offended at your sharpness if you finish your sentence with a full stop?

> These aren't US specific Gen-Z rules, these are quite global.

These rules are specifically about English, and a younger generation. It's not as global as you think.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by shagie »

rom-antics wrote: post #152
FinnKuhn wrote: post #143

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Ö

Beautiful, and all this time I thought HN didn't render emojis

That's an uppercase O with an umlaut on it. I type this with 'option u shift o'.

For example - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara

    Sahara (arabiska: الصحراء الكبرى, aṣ-ṣaḥrā' al-kubra, "Den största öknen")
You'll note the öknen there and if it was capitalized you'd have Öknen.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by Brian_K_White »

hollowcelery wrote: post #105
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

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 a useful way to not take someone seriously.
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