Why should we be careful when sending messages?

It's really strange to send a message with a period. The grammar is hateful and it doesn't look friendly at all. Now there is a study that confirms this.

Researchers led by Celia Kling of Binghamton University said in a report that a text message ending with a period is considered insincere, which may be because the sender has no heart.

"Information is one of the most commonly used computer communication media. The frequency of texting imitates people's face-to-face communication, which also leads to whether important nonverbal information is expressed in the dialogue, such as intonation. " The researchers wrote in a recent research report published in the journal Computer and Human Behavior.

In order to test whether the period has become a social clue in media communication, the researchers gathered a group of people (126 undergraduates, not representing the global population, but at least the representatives who sent the most information) to have a series of exchanges by sending short messages and handwritten notes.

In the above example (I invited a friend out for a drink, and you probably thought I was talking to an emotionless robot), the news of the experiment was an invitation and a simple reply. When the reply has a period, the subject's reaction is generally considered to be lack of sincerity, so it is best not to use punctuation marks, but it has no such effect on handwritten notes.

According to Klin and her colleagues, this symbol shows that the cycle of short messages has its unique significance. It is no longer the right way to end a sentence, but a psychological war against your friend. In unpublished follow-up studies, they found similar signs in exclamation marks, but this kind of punctuation that was once considered rude now makes people feel more sincere than no punctuation.

"SMS lacks many social clues, which are often used in face-to-face conversations in real life. When two people talk, they make eye contact, facial expression, pronunciation and intonation, pause and so on. You can easily convey social and emotional information. " "People obviously can't use these mechanisms when texting," Kling said in a statement. According to our research, this explains why people who send messages rely more on facial expressions, deliberate spelling mistakes and displayed punctuation. "

There is no doubt that language is developing in strange and potentially terrible ways, because language has always been like this. This is due to human wisdom. Even if we can't say it in person, we can always find ways to make ourselves an asshole in others' hearts.

Serious nonsense.