periods straightforwardly read as aggressive to me. there’s a reason i dropped ending periods and caps from my twitter style. i want tweets to be read like IM messages and not like sentences from a textbook
“IM register” is like a whole thing and yet again something of a generational marker, i don’t expect anyone over the age of... 40 or so? to have a sense of it. and god only knows what kind of internet registers the zoomers have