Yay for short weeks! Boo for still having to get the same amount of work done though...
(Please note, I am officially an old person™ and use ellipses as a way to trail off an unfinished thought, not for whatever the young'uns have reassigned it for)
Apparently they are seen as rude or awkward. Which... Tough. When I talk I tend to trail off a bit once I've gotten the point across and I guess I just do it in text out of habit, too.
Nah off the top of my head I think it might have been like they do it when they are expecting a reply, so other generations make them think they are supposed to reply or something.
Having been on the receiving end of it from two people professionally, wracking my brains over what their problem was, until I learned how they were actually meaning it:
The trailing ellipses feels like it's 'politely' avoiding saying the "obvious" conclusion out loud. And if someones avoiding saying it, it's probably negative. That's why it's seen as passive-aggressive.
To my generation it sounds like, I dunno, saying "Where there's smoke...".
Ok good to know! I tend to avoid ... in work emails because I know it can be taken in different ways, I should probably avoid it in other online posts too...