Analysis Of The Article 'Period Full Stop' By Dan Bilefsky

In the article titled “Period. Full stop. Point. Whatever it’s called, it’s going out of style.”, Dan Bilefsky discusses the decreasing popularity of proper punctuation, especially periods, in text messages and in social media. First, Bilefsky introduces an expert on the subject, Dr. Crystal, to talk about the period declining in use. A trend incited by social media empires Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter, Crystal says, omitting the period soon became a social norm. In addition the usage of abbreviations such as “lol”, “rotf”, etc., has been increasing in usage due to these social media trends. Instead of saying “yes” or “okay” while texting, students, in a study conducted by Dr. Crystal, tended to say “yeah”, “sure”, or “yup”. Bilefsky concludes this article by saying that soon the question mark will lose popularity in an effort to show how bad the situation really is. …show more content…
Messaging and social media are places for people to wind down and relax, and using proper punctuation just detracts from that experience. Also, omitting the period and other forms of punctuation makes texting take a shorter time and, therefore, more efficient. I did not really discover much through this article because I already knew that punctuation was not given much attention in texting and on social media. But, on the other hand, this article is important because less use of periods and other punctuation can be devastating to people who type or text like that because when it comes to the time when they have to write their resumes or other formal letters for jobs, for example, their punctuation would not be up to par, therefore giving the company a bad impression of that specific person. Therefore, not using periods and other forms of punctuation should be kept to a minimum on social media and while texting, so your good punctuation habits would not be significantly