Analysis revealed that people who used texting abbreviations such as 'FWIW' – instead of spelling out 'for what it's worth' – were perceived as more insincere. They were also les likely to ...

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Texting these days is full of acronyms, abbreviations, and online shorthand. (So much so that I sometimes need multiple Google searches to decode my daughter’s messages.) If you kick off many ...

so we were surprised that abbreviations elicited negative perceptions about people who use them.” The researchers studied text conversations across 37 countries over several digital watercoolers ...

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