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People who abbreviate their text messages might seem insincere.
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Researchers analyzed 5,000 text messages to gauge their impact.
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Rate their perceived sincerity of messages with and without abbreviations.
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Abbreviations make senders seem less sincere and recipients less likely to write back
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They added that abbreviations signal a lower level of effort from the sender.
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Abbreviations in text messages and social media comments have evolved.
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Since then a system of abbreviated text has developed.
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Many abbreviations are now in dictionaries included truncated terms like fyi.
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Texters might like abbreviations because they would convey an informal sense of closeness.
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We were surprised that abbreviations elicited negative perceptions.
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