>The conflict is genuine, but minor. Online chat has an evolving set of standards. People of different ages use it differently. That creates a chance for miscom

>The conflict is genuine, but minor. Online chat has an evolving set of standards. People of different ages use it differently. That creates a chance for miscommunication. I think the main issue is that it rarely leads to miscommunication or hard feelings, especially like this article describes, because younger generations don't hold older generations to the same standard that they do their peers. Pretending that gen-z gets triggered by the use of periods in texts is silly, they've been seeing periods in texts their entire lives from their millennial parents.