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?

@asklemmy

  • hitmyspot
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    25 days ago

    Yes and were in our 40s now. Those teenagers grew up, at least chronologically.

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      25 days ago

      We’re kinda schizophrenic; working normal jobs during the day, but a part of our mind is still a snarky, sarcastic shitposter with a truly horrific sense of humour lol

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        23 days ago

        ^ yes, this exactly. It was the equivalent of living on the dark net in the eves. Total Wild West.

        Not all > 45 tho. I’d say 40-55 or so who were also “nerds” or “geeks” as kids.