Not in the way you’re thinking of. He’s badly nearsighted, but it’s corrected with glasses, and not the sort of thing that gets worse with age.
Not only is texting very informal, but special meaning has evolved around the use of punctuation and emoji, because tone doesn’t come across well in a purely textual medium. After all:
There are still plenty of people who swear two spaces after a period is the only proper way, so it’s carried over.
I see it enough to be convinced that it’s a real thing.
Not really. The vast majority of GenXers (myself included) have presbyopia as well, and we don’t do these things. And there’s no age related eye condition that makes people write in an overly formal way.
Slow your roll. They’re not remotely alike.
What some consider “proper” others consider “overly formal”.
Almost all of us can code switch between formal and informal speech, so why are we not allowed to do this with writing?
As young boomers in boomer school, my fellow boomers and I were taught by our boomerteacher always to indent* the first line of each paragraph in our boomer essays, so I do that in my boomer texts. It just feels right.
In addition to @FlyerJack’s point, a four dot ellipsis (when used to show omitted text) means the omitted contains the end of a sentence. I’ve never bothered with it myself, only recently learned it was ever a thing. Personally I think the fourth-dot-as-period is redundant, since capitalizing or not capitalizing the next word after a three dot ellipsis usually serves that purpose.
I gave up on indenting shortly after my first ill-fated encounter with the tab key changing focus to the “send” button in gmail, then hitting enter meaning to go to a new line.
This was also the day I started taking advantage of gmail’s “give yourself a certain number of seconds to undo sending” feature.
Online at least, the practice seems to be dead, probably for the reasons you cite. I don’t know if it’s still done in writing that is meant to be printed.
Pff, whatever, old people and babies. I’m a cynical apathetic Xer, and while I will punctuate the end of this sentence, I can’t really be bothered to finish the.
Reminds me of Outlook. The usual keyboard shortcut for searching in Word (ctrl+f) forwards the email (IIRC) and my own keyboard shortcut for the section symbol (alt+s) sends the damn email! Now I just leave the address fields blank until the very end.
