[CharlesW]

I'm surprised the author missed the most obvious weirdness: Every message ends with a punctuation mark.

[lawik]

> These eerily cheery, aggressively punctuated messages suggest a alternate dimension

I don't believe they did.

[samastur]

Like mine do. And most messages I receive. I find it weird that some started seeing punctuation as some weird imposition.

[jayd16]

You even send messages like "lol." with the period?

[ricardobeat]

I don't think I've typed out 'lol' in a message since circa 2005, on online chat in some dark corner of the web. Culture bubbles are an incredible thing.

[samastur]

Same

[cafeinux]

I don't usually text in English so my style is definitely different, but I wonder if I may be living in the Apple Dimension (despite my last Apple device being an iPod Touch from 10 years ago and a MacBook Air from the same time that I bought used to try to install Linux on it): I do end every one of my texts with grammatically correct punctuation, never use "lol" or other abbreviations, and typically write in a very clean, sometimes too verbose, style. I wonder if something up with "us". Maybe a new pathology name ought to be coined.

[samastur]

There IS a name already. It's literate ;)

Seriously though, I don't mind people who don't as long as its decipherable, but I find it odd giving punctuation (or lack of it) some value judgement.

[yieldcrv]

woah periods, so aggressive

apple employees: blink twice if you’re okay

[rvba]

Someone from the committee checked that