[Workaccount2]

There is a non-trivial number of people who get an adverse reaction to anything technical, including the language of technical - numbers. Numbers are the language of confusion, not getting it, feeling inadequate, nerds and losers, stupid math, and the "cold dead machines".

The thing is that people who are fine with numbers will still use those products anyway, perhaps mildly annoyed. People who hate numbers will feel a permeating discomfort and gravitate towards products that don't make them feel bad.

[madeofpalk]

And so the assertion here is that "when a message was sent" is too technical?

I think we need to give people slightly more credit. If this is true, maybe its because we keep infantalising them?

[Izkata]

I can see something along those lines being why so many things designed for everyone have drifted towards soft "three weeks ago" dates.

[vasco]

Well the infantilization is directly in the sentence "regular people". Distinguishing the big brains from the plebes.

[crazygringo]

So you're claiming people are annoyed by... clocks? Prices? Sports scores?

I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

An adverse reaction to equations, OK. Numbers themselves, I really don't know what you're talking about.