Day 212 - 7:58am, 1 August 2019
According to BBC News, it is considered rude/passive aggressive to use a full stop in instant messaging apps. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I tend to avoid group chats. To me, the full stop denotes not just the end of the sentence, it is the pause that shows you have taken the time to edit your thoughts before subjecting the rest of the world to them. Otherwise, it's just a stream of consciousness, which I guess there is nothing wrong with, but I think it feeds an addiction to social media, where you are expected to respond instantly to everything. Nor do I think it encourages linguistic creativity, as the BBC news article suggests, because in taking out that pause, however brief that might be, we are stuck reacting, rather than reflecting, as genuine creativity requires.
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