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fathermcgruder , to nostupidquestions
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Is "resting confused face" a thing?

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fathermcgruder OP ,
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@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don't think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I'm a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.

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fathermcgruder , to asklemmy
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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?

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fathermcgruder OP ,
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@NABDad @asklemmy okay maybe I'm being a little hyperbolic.

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@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn't sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don't think there's anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I'm crazy sometimes.

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@enbyecho @asklemmy I'm well aware that I'm somebody else's elder. I meant it matter-of-factly, like "geriatric pregnancy".

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@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it's really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that's on you.

Based on the mixed responses I'm getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn't have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.

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@jlow @asklemmy https://jorts.horse/@fathermcgruder/112536047583834481

fathermcgruder OP ,
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@Kory @asklemmy I'm 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can't think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I've had this problem.

fathermcgruder , to tools
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What's a good torque wrench to get?

I want to replace the spark plugs in my car and I'm apparently going to have to torque them to 30Nm.

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