Rude?

[chopsueychopsticks]

Is it rude to type someone's name in a message with a lower case initial?

Officially yes but as it’s common practice now, probably no.

It's not proper form and I wouldn't do it, but honestly, I wouldn't read too much into it. It's probably just being lazy.

I mean it's wrong obviously but rude?

Nope, never heard of that.

Yes, that's rude: looks like you don't care

On the whole, yes I think it is rather bad manners.

Is it common practice?

Perhaps it shouldn't be.

I'd assume it was a typo, not an insult.

Capital letter shows they matter and are important to you. Its a mark of respect

Doesn't your device auto correct?

Mine does to many of my friend and family names.

However, my Dd has a name which is a common noun.
That doesn't auto correct.
Neither she nor I care

(I'll admit it, her name is table!)

I would really struggle to care if my name was spelt with lower case only. It's not going to be deliberate unless you have very odd friends. Is there a backstory?

I literally thought "table"

Maybe the family member is odd! When they refer to everyone else, including pets, with the first name initial capitalised then it feels to me to be done on purpose.

Nope, total non issue.

One of my closest friends has a boyfriend called Jack. Sometimes his name doesn't capitalise automatically for me and I often don't realise until I send the message.

I doubt it's on purpose. If you want to tell us your name we could test what it does on all our phones?

I don't think I'd notice if this happened or not!

I imagine it would be very tiresome to actively change a name case everytime. I would guess it's the device default.

I wouldn't care. Depends how quickly I was trying. I often don't bother with correct grammar in messages.