I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.
Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.
Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.
I was around when texts were limited in the number of characters, and most phone plans had a cap on the number of included texts, so people really started with the abbreviations (e.g., “r u gonna go?”) and it started spreading to email and other non-texts (people stayed doing it before then on BBS’s, but it really took off then). But I wrote a lot at work and I was always worried if I got in the habit of using them I’d forget and use them in work emails or whatever. Very conservative company, so it would be unprofessional.
Long way of saying that I consciously avoided anything like that, and that extended to emojis. Now I feel a bit like a fossil for my texts with full sentences and punctuation, but I sort of am a fossil, so it’s okay.
Of course, all that is kind of ironic given my username.