Are full stops passive aggressive?

Nope. I'm quite happy to continue using a full stop at the end of my messages.

We don't need to 'get over ourselves', as your opinion isn't one which matters.

Yes, a full stop - particularly at the end of the final sentence of a message - is seen as passive aggressive or angry by younger people.

That's ok. Communication customs change. We don't send work emails with the same formal layout as a business letter of 1975, for example, so we all accept that new norms are created.

A coupon years ago my younger two, late teens, were discussing how moody a friend in a group chat was being. It all seemed to hinge on full stops to express her strop.

I was mystified. I always ended messages with punctuation. Eldest say, "well, yeah, but you also reply to messages correcting our spelling, so we don't apply the general rules to you. But Gran always ends a text as Love From Gran, so you aren't the worst texter in the world just yet "

No they're not. Sentences aren't finished without them and it looks wrong.

You don't need to use a new line for every sentence, and you don't need to drop all punctuation!
It's only the full stop at the end of the message that isn't used.

Oh ffs, what bloody next!

I have a friend who is obsessed with language, etymology, grammar etc. He studied it to a very high level and can be pedantic at times. Yet he is the first to say that language and structure develops, as it always has, or we'd still be speaking in Olde English. He would absolutely defend the the absence of a message ending full stop, as a natural development in this context

So get over yourselves. WhatsApp/messaging is relatively new, and has developed it's own systems, which make sense in the WhatsApp environment.

I thought you sent each sentence as a separate message rather than just moving to the next line? Because having your phone pinging 5 or 6 times isn’t at all irritating and likely to cause passive aggressive responses. 😡

My son told me about this a few weeks ago with his eyes nearly rolling out of his head.

People are starving, and you're worried about what punctuation young people prefer to use in certain contexts. Sounds like you need to find your spine.

Sometimes. It depends. Why ? Please be careful readers, I should have begun with a warning. Sentence ends with a very intimidating question mark.

You all, as old people, also have aspects of social etiquette that you follow otherwise you might be considered rude. It's rules of social etiquette changing over time.
You don't need a full stop for "clarity" in a whatsapp message because the line break serves as the full stop. If you also add a full stop then you've done it unnecessarily and on purpose so it's often read as abrupt and like you're trying to stop the flow of conversation. People still use full stops in the middle of messages and in other media like emails

Well explained.

In normal correspondence I use punctuation carefully and accurately.

But WhatsApp messaging is different. I don't use full stops at the end of a message, and I use exclamation marks more frequently, to ensure that my tone isn't misunderstood.

If I, at 69, can cope with the norms of different types of communication, I'm pretty sure the rest of you can.

Oh my goodness, I have read it all now 🙈🥺🤷‍♀️ Please can the 12% find your spine and try to remember your English lessons at school. A full stop is inert; it ends an idea, separates two and nothing more. If people under 30 (or whatever) think that they are passive aggressive the world is doomed. People are starving and they are worrying about hurt feelings from a full stop.

That's nucking futs.

I think if you put them after every word…Yes. They. Could. Be.

But "No is a complete sentence" is said on here so much!

One of mine did when we messaged last night. In fact he used two. But it wasn't a work related message.

This whole thread reads like a Daily Mail comment section. It's not about anxiety or mental health or thin skinned young people being triggered. You all, as old people, also have aspects of social etiquette that you follow otherwise you might be considered rude. It's rules of social etiquette changing over time.
You don't need a full stop for "clarity" in a whatsapp message because the line break serves as the full stop. If you also add a full stop then you've done it unnecessarily and on purpose so it's often read as abrupt and like you're trying to stop the flow of conversation. People still use full stops in the middle of messages and in other media like emails.

I wouldn't pander to that.

My adult DC’s told me this a couple of years ago. However, they forgive me for doing it because I am old, so obviously I don’t know anything. 😁

My elderly mother is now using exclamation marks with abandon. It is exhausting to read. Like receiving letters from a Spanish teenager c.1990.

Apparently not. You must move down a line, to indicate the end of a sentence.
What you do when there's a new paragraph is anyone's guess 🤔.

I presume that you can use full stops if your message has more than one sentence and it's just the final full stop that is deemed passive-aggressive?

I mean this is Gen Z we are talking about isn’t it? So they will probably see it as ‘literal violence’ for which they require a ‘safe space’ to recover from the complex PTSD it causes them, using the last fidget spinner to cope.

So probably.

So you said 😄