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Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by groestl »

dbspin wrote: post #76
groestl wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the worst interpretation something someone says is accurate Well, to give just a few examples: * The worst interpretation of a sentence said by politicians is usually accurate * In contractual law, the worst interpretation of a clause is the one you need to prepare for * In advertising, the absolute worst interpretation of a phrase is usually accurate * If you get a letter of recommendation, the worst interpretatio…

All of those things have been true at least since the dawn of mass media in the early 20th century. I'm speaking about intergenerational change, and interpersonal interactions. Perhaps the difference is that we all now exist as though on the public stage. Either way, perceiving everyday interactions in that way is dispiriting and closes you off from people with different experiences and perspectives. It can make your…

> Perhaps the difference is that we all now exist as though on the public stage

Ah yeah, true! So basically now we're kind of forced into reading everything, even when it's private, as some kind of press release.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by cj »

SunghoYahng wrote: post #78

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To be fair, when I was a teenager 20 years ago in the 2000's chatting on AIM or MSN Messenger:

- Most people didn't capitalize

- People used a blend of text and regular emojis

- Acronyms were rampant... "sup", "nm", "wbu", "wyd", "brb", etc...

- Many of the same rules applied re: use of periods, having different meanings for "okay" vs. "kk" vs. "ok"

These rules started to form 20 years ago. Not new to this generation.

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Post by wildrhythms »

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #18
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.…

>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.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by pxoe »

mdhb wrote: post #10

Might be a bit of a boomer opinion but the thing that kept coming up for me as I was reading that was “damn, that’s a lot of social insecurity built in by default to almost every interaction and conversation”. Not all of it obviously and I don’t even think that’s strictly a Gen Z thing specifically (much of it could have been written about my mother for example) but JFC it sounds emotionally draining way to live your…

reading this comment, it does come across as inattentive, unable to pick up on social cues and subtleties (or take them seriously, when they're laid out like that), and inconsiderate, all of which is very boomer

just think back to your own ways of communication within your circles of people, that would be 'subtle' like that, and just, realize that 'this is just other people coming up with their own things'. like, even bro culture is chock full of social cues, subtleties, unspoken things, 'if they do this, you do that', and so on. it's truly not new in any sense, especially not in regards to what you call "insecurity". and 'sensitivity' is not a bad thing by any means. especially around and with your closest people.

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Post by heckelson »

Gigachad wrote: post #27
a1371 wrote: post #12

Some of these make a lot of sense, not just as a Gen Z thing, but overall adopting them shouldn't annoy anyone. I will continue ending my sentences with a full stop but maybe I'll start picking more expressive emojis than :)

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

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Post by wildrhythms »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #26
tuxxi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”.

My impression of people who write like that is that they're 9 years old and somehow made it on the big-boy Internet. Mostly because the content of messages written in that fashion gives that impression as well. It's sloppier than the average youtube comment.

How old are the people you communicate with regularly? I work with plenty of late 20 and 30-something professionals and they all intrinsically understand this phenomenon. I also work in tech, with tech savvy individuals, so maybe that has something to do with it.

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Post by Hamuko »

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.

This article makes me want to communicate with zoomers even less than I did before. Android sounds appealing.

Not that it matters, I'm not American.

Re: Gen Z Netiquettes

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Post by [deleted] »

dilap wrote: post #14
vsnf wrote: post #4

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No. It’s written to be funny but I can vouch that these rules, such as they are, are all more or less correct.

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??

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