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 they are seen as passive aggressive if you use them at the end of a text (with no x or emoji to soften them!) I guess it feels like your ending the conversation?

I hate the thumbs up emoji. That’s even more passive aggressive imo!

Correct punctuation is rude?! I've heard it all now!

I agree re the thumbs up emoji though, @Redhairandhottubs!

I end text message with a full stop, and sign off emails ‘Regards’. I am not passive-aggressive, I like punctuation, and all my regards are kind, so I don’t feel any need to specify the fact. (I also use ‘apology’ rather than ‘sincere apology’, because if the apology isn’t sincere, I’m not offering it in the first place.)

My sister only uses full stops in text or watsapp messages if you don't agree with her or she doesn't like what you're saying.

Yes, I completely concur with you 🤗
Beautiful, compassionate, & enlightening, comment💚

Yes, I have a friend, who does the very same 🤗

You send each sentence as a separate message.

Using kisses at the end of texts is definitely a slippery slope. Our builder- with whom I've not had many interactions- has sent me kisses by accident. He spots it later on and repeats the message without the kisses. Maybe he gets friendly with other customers but this isn't the case with me.

I dread to think how the easily-offended squadron deal with apostrophes used correctly. Looking back through my small collection of messages I have noticed that sometimes I do and sometimes I don't use a full stop. Note to self, as of today full stops are mandatory in all my messages.

I do this too! Not so much on my phone, but definitely when writing documents/emails in work.

Really rather depends on the message.

If someone asks a question and you reply 'NO.' I can understand why someone would find that, not so much passive aggressive, but actually quite aggressive.

But if it's a friendly reply and ends in a full stop can't see why it would be seen as p.a.

I'm in my early 30s and wouldn't use a full stop in a message because its not something me and my friends would use if we weren't mad at eachother, and we've done this for the last 15 years at least. Even a kiss at the end of the message depending on the conversation will often be used to be sarcastic. I feel like a lot of people are forgetting emojis exist as well and can replace punctuation often.

I work in a professional job and I obviously use proper punctuation in formal correspondence, even in personal emails, but not really in messages.

Language is always evolving. I mean I would use 😂 to say I find something funny, my younger brother in law would use 💀 to mean he finds something funny, and I'm sure kids now use something completely different (if they use emojis at all).

It's bizarre some people are calling young people easily offended but they are so offended by how younger people communicate.

When I was a teen and used to take all of the vowels out of words to fit my txt n2 1 msg bcz it wz rly xspnsve it wasn't because I couldn't spell. It was just the norm at the time.

@GladioliGreen This made me smile because it reminded me of one of the first internet forums I was on in the very early 2000s. The forum was a bit special interest, centred around a magazine part work that turned out to have quite a varied demographic.

It was clear that some of the people posting were probably teenagers and they often tended to post in text speak like your example. Other people were obviously old buffers (probably even older than the just turning 40 year old me!) who were having their first experiences on any kind of online forum. There would be almost incoherent outrage from some of the more "mature" forum members at what they took to be the shoddy standard of literacy in the 21st century. Eventually other posters had to gently explain that the teens almost certainly did know how to spell and punctuate correctly but that this was a fashionable form of communication currently.

So innocent back then!