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?

@asklemmy

  • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I’ve mostly seen the opposite. older people having taken typing classes while people who started typing very yound never got instruction and even if they had their hands would have been too small at the time. they do get pretty good WPMs though.

    • ianovic69@feddit.uk
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      1 month ago

      Early 2000s we started playing Typing of the Dead in our breaks so we could get the parts of work that needed typing done more quickly.

      Still can’t type, I switched to swiping on phones the minute I could.