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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke? (jorts.horse)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of my kids messages are super short or emoji filled, my wife, friends and older contacts all text to text me full paragraphs or sentences.

Need some examples

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're a millennial with gen alpha kids. The latest generation is struggling to read and write, while millennials are the best typists

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I blame msn messenger for my speedy typing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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RuneScape was just a series of typing exercises for me. Eventually I got an auto typer but I'd still throw in my own messages to try to throw off the bot detection