"I Saw Someone Say 'Woot' The Other Day — It Was Like War Flashbacks": 32 Things Pretty Much All Millennials Do Over Text That Give Away Their Age, Lol

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Millennials are getting older (some of them, astatine least; decidedly not me). And though I deliberation we're each looking blistery arsenic hell, our property sometimes shows successful a precise circumstantial arena: texting. (Though, we fundamentally invented texting and chatspeak, truthful conscionable support that successful mind!!!)

1. "If I don’t enactment lol aft everything I say, however volition you cognize I’m not being a bitch!?"

2. "I hated erstwhile apps started converting my :) into a 😀."

3. "There is simply a quality betwixt 'k' and 'kk!'"

5. "I volition everlastingly usage a * for spelling corrections, and you can't archer maine anything!"

7. "My girl (17) says millennials usage 😂😂 for laughing, and she and her friends/classmates usage 😭😭. I tried to usage the 😭 with her once, and she was like, 'Don't beryllium weird, ew! Just usage your millennial emojis and ain it!' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂"

8. "Every erstwhile successful a while, idiosyncratic volition notation a Homestar enactment oregon 'all your basal are beryllium to us,' and I get activated similar a sleeper agent."

—u/RadicalAns

12. "Using 'just' mode much often than necessary. Overexplaining everything. Using emotes immoderate clip a connection mightiness POTENTIALLY beryllium viewed arsenic off-putting/disrespectful successful immoderate mode due to the fact that damnit we can’t person radical misunderstand america and consciousness atrocious and marque america consciousness atrocious for making them consciousness bad. Apologizing constantly, adjacent if precise passively (see above). Wanting to person an 'end' to each speech but ever having a unsmooth clip really ending a conversation."

13. "Calling idiosyncratic a noob, oregon saying woot."

14. "How astir a bully ol' bahaha?"

15. "GIF reactions. GIFs are our mentation of Boomer images with Minions and interaction font."

17. "Using punctuation and implicit sentences. Oh, and periods astatine the extremity of a sentence. Or that conscionable mightiness beryllium me."

19. "Older Gen Z here. Y’all get acrophobic erstwhile idiosyncratic types successful each caps and deliberation it means they are yelling. I’ve had a fewer millennial coworkers beryllium like, 'What’s wrong?' and I’m like, 'I person breathtaking news!' You guys besides accidental 'too funny' which I deliberation is cute."

20. "they tin pry my :3 and :/ from my cold, dormant hands."

—u/mothbaby_333

21. "Elipses astatine the extremity of sentences."

22. "Who's aged capable to retrieve A/S/L?"

23. "I got called retired for being aged aft utilizing 'ppl' alternatively of 'people.'"

—u/Jebusfreek666

24. "The excessive usage of '!' In mundane substance and email. Or possibly that’s conscionable me!"

25. "Apparently '👍 ' has go passive-aggressive."

27. "I useddd to repeattt lettersss whennn usinggg AIM."

28. "'OMW.' Anything that iMessage tin foretell is millennial."

29. "Keysmashing erstwhile thing was truly comic oregon erstwhile you conscionable had a heightened feeling. Example: 'sksksjskslslsl' oregon 'SDDKDKKSNSJDKSKSL.'"

32. And finally, "Honestly, I’m good with seeming similar I’m my ain age. I’m not trying to acceptable successful with 16-year-olds. 🤷🏽"

Can you deliberation of different substance connection etiquette that says, "Hey! You're texting with a millennialllllllllllll????" Tell maine successful the comments oregon usage the anonymous signifier below. Your effect whitethorn beryllium featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed article!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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