Why does private messaging hate carriage returns?

[MsAmerica]

Having just learned that when a thread refuses to let you reply, even though it doesn't bother to tell you, the issue is that it closed after 1000 posts - I thought I'd send a private message to answer a question.
The problem is that the system apparently doesn't understand the concept of paragraphs. When I hit the enter/carriage return, it would automatically send.
Why aren't we allowed the privilege of being able to separate sections for clarity?

I know what you mean - it can be frustrating, although I rarely message anyone anyway so it doesn't bother me much.

Right. I never message people, so I didn't realize it until now. Can you see any logical reason for this?

Isn't FB messenger the same? Not that I use that much either.

Maybe someone knows why, I don't.

It’s not so much that PMs hate carriage returns, it’s just following a pretty common pattern these days.

Most messaging systems I use (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, etc...) treat Enter as “send message” by default. That’s why hitting it fires the PM off straight away rather than starting a new line. The paragraph just isn't used that much anymore I guess.

Holding Shift and then hit Enter at the same time does add a new line though instead of send. Works exactly the same in Slack.

Works a little differently on mobile though. For some reason people and apps like enter on mobile more. 🫤

It’s so annoying though. Who wants enter to mean send!?! It just results in half written messages being sent constantly.

It used to work if you typed a double space before hitting return. It still works now when you’re typing it until you actually send the message and then it closes the gap.

Hi there @MsAmerica. Thanks for getting in touch.

As others have mentioned, this is pretty standard across many platforms where you send messages. We do agree that it's frustrating though. We'll pass your feedback on in case there is ever an opportunity for us to change it. In the meantime, a 'soft return' (hold down the shift key as you hit 'enter') is probably the easiest workaround.

Okay, I'll believe you that it's standard, but so far I've only found it in one other place, NextDoor, which I consider a dreadful site that I hope no one will emulate.
Thanks for the suggestion, but, knowing how I operate, I probably will never remember ploys for specific sites, especially as I so rarely send private messages.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm big on clarity, which means that text that runs all together, often without punctuation, drives me crazy.

WhatsApp doesn't do it. Messenger probably does but messenger/facebook is absolute shit anyway. I think that Twitter also does it but I don't use it much as it is so toxic since that horrible twat bought it.
Doesn't do it on here either.

I've found the best way round it on here is to write my message elsewhere with nice gaps between my paragraphs then cut and paste it into the private message, as it keeps the spacing.