{"id":206735,"date":"2025-02-19T05:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/study-finds-adding-extra-periods-to-your-texts-makes-them-seem-more-intense"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:29:32","slug":"study-finds-adding-extra-periods-to-your-texts-makes-them-seem-more-intense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/study-finds-adding-extra-periods-to-your-texts-makes-them-seem-more-intense","title":{"rendered":"Study finds adding extra periods to your texts makes them\u2026 Seem. More. Intense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-adding-extra-periods-to-your-texts-makes-them-seem-more-intense2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would you think if you received this text message?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuy some milk\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pretty straightforward. Nothing to bat an eye at. But what if the text read like this?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuy. Some. Milk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A little more intense, right? Does the texter need the milk immediately? Are they frustrated? According to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, textisms like these\u2014such as adding a period after each word or putting each word in its own text bubble\u2014can convey emotion and intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you think if you received this text message? \u201cBuy some milk\u201d Pretty straightforward. Nothing to bat an eye at. But what if the text read like this? \u201cBuy. Some. Milk.\u201d A little more intense, right? Does the texter need the milk immediately? Are they frustrated? According to new research from Binghamton University, State [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}