WHY I RARELY US EXCLAMATION POINTS. Katherine Bindley cites Dr. Celia Klin, a professor who researches psycholinguistics, who argues that;”Since email and texts have become substitutes for spoken conversation, people started using punctuation for emphasis and tone instead of just as a way to mark the end of sentence.”
I use periods only to mark the end of a sentence—with rare exceptions.
It could be because I have used a keyboard primarily for fairly businesslike communication. However, I think it’s laziness. An exclamation point presents the difficult of shifting, and I have enough trouble with initial capitals and symbols.