By Rachel Feltman | The Washington Post
Ending your texts with a period is truly monstrous. We all know this. Grammar be darned, it just doesn’t look friendly.
Now a study has confirmed it. Researchers, led by Binghamton University’s Celia Klin, report that text messages ending with a period are perceived as being less sincere, probably because the people sending them are heartless.
“Text messaging is one of the most frequently used computer-mediated communication (CMC) methods. The rapid pace of texting mimics face-to-face communication, leading to the question of whether the critical non-verbal aspects of conversation, such as tone, are expressed in CMC,” the researchers write in the study, which was published recently in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
