You have a point. First there were words and punctuation, then the punctuation agglutinated into emoticons, now we have Unicode emojis, but peaches and eggplants are obscene, white space is significant, periods are rude, ellipses are ominous, and at-signs are sphincters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weing...

>“Why would anyone use a period in an IM or text? Using periods in informal communications is rude.”

>“What millennials really want to know is why boomers sometimes end innocuous statements with three dots. That makes everything sound ... ominous.”

>Another millennial of my acquaintance told me something else: The casual use of an @ to mean “at,” as in, “Are you going to be @ the office?” is interpreted by millennials as a deep offense: By code, you are calling them a sphincter!