What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke? (jorts.horse)

submitted 5 months ago by fathermcgruder@jorts.horse to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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[-] Kory@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

45+ is "older people" to you?

[-] fathermcgruder@jorts.horse 2 points 5 months ago

@Kory @asklemmy I'm 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can't think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I've had this problem.

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[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

https://www.stroke.org/en/about-stroke/stroke-symptoms

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Other Stroke Symptoms

Watch for Sudden:

CONFUSION, trouble speaking or understanding speech

[-] fathermcgruder@jorts.horse 3 points 5 months ago

@NABDad @asklemmy okay maybe I'm being a little hyperbolic.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Good info to post! Actually, I like that this is now a thing to ask someone whose post is turned to gibberish by autocorrect: it keeps the idea in mind, should anyone need it in real life

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

...what do you mean...

[-] sheridan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

From my experience, touch typing and using all fingers (home row technique I think it's called) is less common among boomers, especially men. Even in professional settings I've seen men peck at their keyboards with just their pointer fingers. The slowness of this technique might explain the use of abbreviations at the desktop?

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