Stupid question perhaps, but how does one separate sentences without fullstops then?
Gen Z Netiquettes
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Counterpoint: I'm American.
You have an iPhone and you don't use iMessage? I guess turning 30 has officially pushed me into the "old" generation. I'm ok with that.
Almost everyone I message frequently has an iPhone, and I don't think I've had an iMessage from a human in the last 5 years
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#93Stupid question perhaps, but how does one separate sentences without fullstops then?
when you send
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#94Stupid question perhaps, but how does one separate sentences without fullstops then?
- Just send them as multiple lines or messages
- Ending a sentence with period sounds overly serious for one-liner or short messages. If you write multiple sentences in a message it's still OK to use periods (though writing a long paragraph over multiple messages can also come off as serious, so ultimately it depends on the tone you want to convey in your message)
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#95this is not gen Z, but late millennials
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#96I 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.
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#97Meanwhile I've never encountered these "netiquettes" whoever I'm talking to. Perhaps every generation isn't a monoculture.
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#98For me, one of the biggest indicators that someone is from a generation older than my own is seeing two spaces after a period.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I agree Those examples just sound real lazy Gen Z writing The other ones I kinda agree (with measure), but this one is awful. Then they ask why "is it so hard to get a job". Job market issues aside, don't come across as a dork.
> Job market issues aside, don't come across as a dork. Not disagreeing with you, but I think what constitutes as being a dork depends heavily on the situation (workplace culture, etc.). Writing like a Gen Z doesn't necessarily make one a dork. I'd argue that the reverse is true: not writing like everyone else (i.e. completely ignoring the so called "Gen Z Netiquette") makes you a dork for being inept at adapting to…
> completely ignoring the so called "Gen Z Netiquette
True. But I don't do that (quite the opposite, but I don't write like that here, because again, reading the room is important) ;)
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#100Earlier 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
No zoomer I talk to has any idea what ^^ means, it seems like a millennial giveaway. I haven't tested :3, but in general it seems to me they're barely aware of plain-text emotes.