🙂 is only sent by psychopaths who are already planning out your murder

If absolutely necessary use 🙃 or 🤗 instead

This isn’t new. I noticed this back in ~2001.

People are just catching up to me.

I don't think the LOL thing had changed as 'lol' is passive aggressive, whereas 'LOL' means it's hella funny.

Another rule I think of is that ending sentences with periods is seen as passive aggressive, but I do that all the time (that rule's bull).

I think it is honestly really pathetic that so many of you claim to love language and yet what you really love is having a rigid form of interaction that you can shame people for not perfectly following or reacting intuitively to.

Language is ALWAYS a negotiation, if you dismiss people that interpret your sentences without a period as passive-aggressive, YOU are the one that loses because you have undermined the basic premise of communicating with others in favor of the comforting idea that there are a perfect set of unchanging abstract rules that can be applied to communication that delineate a "correct" way to do things.

There are no rules to language, language is not decided by a committee, language is a living breathing thing that does not give a fuck about your condescending attempt to lock it in stone and direct it towards being used as a tool to shame others with.

You don't get to decide what people react to and don't react to in your language.

Don't know. Don't care. Playing games about hidden meanings gets me to stop texting you.

I hadn't heard of this before, but I think I can see how they're getting there. With no punctuation, you have to infer the emotional detail from the context. If you add a period, it can be perceived as specifying that you're using a flatter, less excited tone.

Compare:

Grandma's coming this weekend

                     Yay

To this:

Grandma's coming this weekend

                     Yay.

On top of that, these kids are used to using emoticons and such to indicate a variety of emotional shadings, rather than just an exclamation mark - so deliberately specifying the flattest, least interested emotional load could very well read as just waiting for the conversation to be over.