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A new study that people who their text messages might insincere. In addition, they might less likely to receive replies. Researchers from Stanford University in the USA and the University of Toronto in Canada 5,000 text messages to the impact of abbreviations. Test participants had to their perceived sincerity of messages with and without abbreviations. They also their likelihood of responding. The researchers said: "Abbreviations senders seem less sincere and recipients less likely to write back." They added: "Abbreviations a lower level of effort from the sender."

Abbreviations in text messages and social media comments have into a distinct genre of writing. The first text message was in 1992. Since then, a system of abbreviated text has that is largely understood and widely used. Many abbreviations now in dictionaries. Truncated terms like "fyi," "cul8r," and "imho" are commonplace in text messages. Of course, these "for your information," " you later," and "in my humble opinion". Researcher David Fang said: "We texters might like abbreviations because they would an informal sense of closeness, so we were surprised that abbreviations negative perceptions about people who them."