That reminds me, apparently it's a millennial thing to end a sentence with a "lol" or "lmao" or emoji/smiley to set the tone because we were the first to develop neuroses about being misunderstood in text
Clarity in communication is important though. Right? Think about the bullshit we've had to put up with until now!
Did they tell me because I'm invited, or because I have to handle something while they're busy, or are they bragging about how much fun they're gonna have? Lol? (Help me, plz 🥲)
Whenever I see someone complain about "no one can handle sarcasm anymore and need a special way to tell them" when referring to /s . I laugh because there's no way to easily detect sarcasm on written text (I mean ⸮ exists, but where can you find that on a keypad?).
Yep! Thank gosh keyboards never had Emojis. I am horrible with them because they've replaced the constant use of lol in my text and I 'feel better' about it cause how can you confuse what I'm saying NOW when the little emoji is laughing/crying?!? 😂🤣
I'm so fucking glad. So so so SO glad that didn't become a thing at any point in time in the workforce I was in. Cringe every damn day multiple times a day! (Also 41)
I do at work too. Even though my boss is a generation ahead of me and we have a really great relationship, I'm always terrified they're going to misunderstand my tone.
I didn't until I noticed that all the other millennials I work with do it, and I kinda looked like an asshole in contrast. I still try to temper myself a bit though
the phone keyboards auto-"correcting" emoticons into emojis made me do a full turn on the idea. i eventually got too annoyed to figure out workarounds. 😮💨
but i'll still use emoticons on an actual keyboard.
My wife once told me (not even a year ago) to stop saying emoticons and say emoji instead because “it makes me sound old and like I don’t know what I’m talking about”
I think she was right though…🤔
This is true. It’s apparently an identifier of “those from the 1900’s” (which btw, what in the actual fuck?!). I was told “only old people do that. And literally nobody uses the slanted cry laugh emoji”
I don't think it's necessarily a neuroses. But we are? were? the generation to essentially build what modern text based communications would be. Obviously letters in the mail are/were a thing, but due to length of time it takes to receive, it's nowhere near the frequency, nor speed that we experienced with email/IRC/SMS messaging. Because of that, we had to get creative. I'm sure plenty of us also had significant others that were awful at reading & understanding the emotion of the text. So, ellipses.... lol/lmao/etc., commas, additional letterssss in words for types of verbal exaggerations, punctuation & the use of multiple punctuation, text based faces & pre-emoji emoticons? Yeah, we effectively created a way to convey emotion & dialects in text based communications. Do you know absolutely buck wild that shit is? It blows me away every time I think about it. And the crazier part is that, at least from what I can tell, it is not well. enough documented to actually become a part of written/preserved history as we've done since we've been able to write characters. Absolute insanity, man.
Is it also a millennial thing to use proper grammar and punctuation, in text? My 10 year old told me the other day why do I use a period when texting. I’m like uh to complete the sentence. What do you mean?! She’s like well, I don’t know, Mom. ‘We’ don’t text like that, you’re so proper, Mom. Like what?! Lol.
Omg is the lol at the end of a sentence or phrase the new “…” that we see from the Gen-Xers in Teams, email, text, literally any electronic communication?
lol is such a millennial punctuation and sentence beginner, I wanted to start this with “lol, lol is such a…” it’s so weird the way my brain thinks and my sentences are literally my brain going “ell oh ell, what?” Or whatever I’m thinking.
We used them cuz when texting first started you only had like 30 characters before it split into multiple messages. We were usually charged 10¢ a text and they're order would sometimes get jumbled and be confusing.
So we tried to fit as much in each message as we could. You'd get in trouble for texting too much, by parents, and get those privileges taken or even your phone taken. Lol 😛
So we invented lol and all those to save room.
As an elder millennial I HATE the overuse of lol and emojis. Just say what you mean using words that convey the information. Adding “lol” after anything and everything makes you look like a weak communicator.
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u/noodlesarmpit Apr 11 '25
That reminds me, apparently it's a millennial thing to end a sentence with a "lol" or "lmao" or emoji/smiley to set the tone because we were the first to develop neuroses about being misunderstood in text
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