When you have a trifecta day of ortho appt (for dh), retinal appt for me and a visitation for someone the same age as you. 
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It’s not just that younger people don’t bother with punctuation, it’s that punctuation, for them, especially periods, are often considered to convey tone in a way many older texters are unaware of. So “Ok.” means something different than “ok”—- the former can be closer to “I’m not happy about this but alright, I guess”. And “No.” can be the equivalent of “No!”
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I don’t put a period after a single-word text, but I can see how that might add emphasis. I would use an exclamation point though.
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I don’t use all-caps because it conveys screaming, but I get called out for capitalizing ONE word for emphasis—can’t count how many times I’ve had to explain myself (“no, I’m not yelling, just emphasizing one word…”)
There is a wide abyss between stressing a word for emphasis and all-out yelling, but nobody seems to see that.
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I can’t use OK, ok, K or any variation when texting my D because she says her generation reads that as passive aggressive, like the word “fine”.
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I have been informed by all three of my children that “Kk” without any punctuation is acceptable with no hidden meanings.
It pains me to my soul as someone who texts full sentences with punctuation to use that so I choose not to but it is an option. Supposedly.
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Might be off-topic, but what is “texting” ?
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Hmmm… wonder if that is why my daughter texts “okay” (spelled out). I use OK a lot. And when I was working, it seemed to be a phrase in text easily understood on emails/chats by international coworkers. Hopefully the younger ones took no offense.
Wondering if I have the unicorn genz who doesn’t look for hidden meanings in texts, punctuation or emojis; she even uses the dreaded 
and I will forever use the ellipsis 
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I have older friends who text ok a lot. And they text…
I always think that they are just old like me.
I never text ok in any form. I’ll say sounds good. Or not a problem instead.
The period is just a reflex of typing
You’re putting together an itinerary for an old friend coming to visit and you realize that you’ve completely ignored the concept that people go out or do anything after dinner. At least I’m not planning for the early bird special…
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You know all the birds at your feeder…
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I use kk because it conveys to my kids what I intend. A breezy “ sure, that’s fine”. I do think the native users of a language are the best to set the rules and texting is in many ways its own language. I thus do try to follow the rules set by the mass of younger users to whom texting is a native language.
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I think you are exactly right. I definitely stopped using Ok in any form when they told me how it sounds and when they give me guidance on what not to write, I listen to them.
At the same time, it pains me to use ‘text speak’; it just looks plain wrong to me. My compromise is to continue writing in full sentences and accept gracefully (and happily) my children’s text speak texts.
My kids all joke they will know I’ve been kidnapped/am being held for ransom or someone has just plain stolen my phone if I ever use text speak back to them.
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I thought text speak went away for young folks when phones with alphabet keyboards became common–no reason to have to say 2 for to, etc.
I only see older people who haven’t moved on use that kind of language.
(Or maybe there’s another kind of textspeak? In that case I don’t think I see it much from my young folk.)
I will say that I leave periods off of sentences because apparently it’s speech and seems too abrupt and I don’t need the judging if I don’t. But I get amused when I get a text paragraph of complete sentences from one of the kids with all normative punctuation for every sentence except the last one which lacks its period.
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When all your friends are having old people medical issues - cataracts, injuries from falling, etc.
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When you guess someone’s age (in your own head, of course!) … then you find out that not only are they younger than you thought … they are younger than you!
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You think it’s ridiculous for parents to track their adult kids!
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You go to any store and everyone is your age or older, except grocery stores.
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When La Croix just doesn’t taste that good.
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