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

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Take into account that those 45 and older were the ones with disposable income when the internet took off

    We fuckin invented the digital world, and memes too!

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      6 months ago

      Not sure who the “we” is in your post but Imo the biggest influence on meme culture was 4chan and similar dumpster fire communities of the early/adolescent Internet.

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        6 months ago

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

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          6 months 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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            6 months 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.