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Has social media changed how we use sarcasm?
In computer-mediated communication, you would expect that because there aren’t many opportunities to signal irony and provide cues, like gestures or facial expressions, you would expect that people avoid it. But they don’t. The internet speaks for itself on this point, but research also backs it up: In 2004, Stanford communications professor Jeff Hancock published a study in the Journal of Language in Social Psychology suggesting that people may use sarcasm more frequently online than they do in face-to-face interaction. Sarcasm is alive and well online; that much is obvio
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"When we use sarcasm, you would never in real life say ‘sarcasm,’” Kapogianni says. But when people mark their sarcastic tweets with hashtags or emoji, “they make it absolutely explicit, which sort of goes against this general idea that sarcasm is always implicit.”
As someone who is inherently sarcastic, I find this part to be why I view the /s thing to be completely pointless when people use it.
At some sites, /s is like wearing a flack jacket. The amount of .357 caliber "I'm offended" TM ammunition far outweighs any sense of humor.
I guess that's why I also inherently don't give a shit if someone gets offended.
Soooo... no it hasn't?