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As Gretchen McCulloch put it: the message bubble _is_ the full stop. It did happen organically, and it _is_ an alarming event when someone who usually doesn't u
by graynk 5y ago
As Gretchen McCulloch put it: the message bubble _is_ the full stop. It did happen organically, and it _is_ an alarming event when someone who usually doesn't use full stops in chat suddenly decides to use one.
Tom Scott made a video on that [0], which references Gretchen's book - Because Internet [1]
[0] https://youtu.be/fS4X1JfX6_Q https://youtu.be/fS4X1JfX6_Q
[1] https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/ https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
- blooalien 5y agoI'm not really thrilled with that definition or line of thinking because it leads to a horrible habit that annoys me no end. The habit of using the sending of a single line of text in lieu of a "full stop" (period). This leads to thirty dingdingding notifications as the person sending seems to be incapable of putting a complete stream of thought into a proper paragraph with sentences in a single message. Just type out a complete thought before hitting "Send", please. I don't really want thirty related individual sentences arriving one after another separately.
- graynk 5y ago> This leads to thirty dingdingding notifications I've disabled all notifications, save for blinking LED. So if I happen to look at my phone - I will see that there are some unread notifications, but other than that - no sounds, no vibrations, I don't need this distraction in my life. I've only enabled them for a couple of important contacts. Now I can even tell from whom the message is, just by the sound of the notification.