Using abbreviations in text messages comes across as less sincere, study finds

People who use abbreviations were less likely to receive responses, analysis by psychologists found

Reducing your texts to a flurry of abbreviations could have unintended consequences, according to researchers who found that wordless exchanges were more likely to convey idrc" than ily".

Psychologists analysed messages from more than 5,000 people across eight studies and found that those who used abbreviations were deemed less sincere and were less likely to receive responses as a result.