Are full stops passive aggressive?

[Samas]

Are full stops really passive-aggressive now? According to my colleague they are, especially in text messages. Apparently, ending a sentence correctly is no longer “neutral” but somehow comes across as cold or hostile.

yabu= full stops are indeed PA
yanbu= of course they’re not

Yes.

FFS 🙄 the world has gone mad if punctuation is now PA.
😡🤬

To quote Ferris Bueller's Day off... I weep for the future.
😭

Proper punctuation is never an issue.

I have no idea what you’re talking about! What kind of sentence? Do you mean where they shouldn’t be like ‘don’t. Do. That.’?

🤣🤣.

I'm sorry OP but that is hilarious! I take it your colleague is winding you up?
Or are the illiterate among us trying to pull a fast one over people with a normal grasp on how to write a proper sentence?

No.

I think they are in the instance where you would perhaps use an exclamation mark if you were being genuine.

I mean when they are used correctly at the end of the sentence. I know it sounds bat shit but that is what she told me.

Apparently so, if you are under 30 and it's in a text/whatsapp/snapchat/whatever message.

I still use punctuation in most of my text messages, even to my 20-something DCs, but I am ancient.

Deadly psychological weapons like full stops should only be used with extreme caution!!!!!!!!.

People can be passive aggressive; full stops can not. Period.

I mean, if someone wants to take offence at the traditional use of punctuation, then I suppose we can just let them- they would be small loss.

If i finish a text message to my DP with a full stop, he phones me to see why im cross with him

My old manager wouldn't let me use exclamation marks, because he though it looked like sarcasm.
People are petty

According to this independent article some younger people find them rude

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/full-stop-end-texting-rude-b1876131.html

😂

According to my teenagers they are. They asked me not to put full stops in my texts to them because it makes it seem like I'm mad at them.

Lol, I had no idea about this till I read this thread. Mind, I’m 50 now 💪

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Then he obviously has serious mental health issues.

I hope you texted back and told them they are batshit.

And that you didn't forget the full stop.

Full stops in the correct place are not passive aggressive.
Full.stops.in.the.wrong.place.are.passive.aggressive (though are those technically full stops?).
Short sentences can be seen as rude in some scenarios.

I hope you refuse to reduce yourself to the level of an illiterate.

Why?