It's not "unneeded bits". In fact, chatters aren't freed from convention, but rather have established a new convention where adding a period at the end of chat

It's not "unneeded bits". In fact, chatters aren't freed from convention, but rather have established a new convention where adding a period at the end of chat messages can now be viewed as "aggressive". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/crosswords/texting-punctuation-period.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/crosswords/texting-punctu...