Do you text like a millennial?

How many times do you hit "send" when you're telling someone a story over text? Do you type the whole thing out in one message, complete with sentences and maybe even punctuation? Or does the story arrive like this? wait so I have to tell you something because this is insane lol Your answer, according to the latest generational debate on TikTok , might reveal your age.

In a since-deleted TikTok video , a Gen Z user explained that she recently discovered her millennial coworkers were annoyed by the way she texts.

"I was sat with my millennial coworkers, and they were annoyed by the fact that when I text, I go, like, dah dah dah dah dah," she explained, mimicking the rhythm of sending several messages in quick succession.

Instead of putting an entire thought into one message, she sends each sentence — sometimes each thought — separately.

Her millennial coworkers, meanwhile, send "one big chunk." SEE ALSO: The latest Gen Z vs. millennial debate is the space above your head "And I hate it when it's a big chunk because it takes me so long to read it," she said.

"That's not how my thought process works." Naturally, millennials took this extremely well.

In screen-recorded stitches on the app, they pointed out that these "big chunks" have another name : paragraphs.

Others complained about watching their phone light up again and again as someone sends six messages that could have been one.

And some latched onto the creator's theory for the generational divide: Millennials learned to text when cell phone carriers charged by the message, so they learned to cram as much information as possible into a single text.

There is some truth to the ancient millennial lore.

Before unlimited texting became commonplace, wireless customers could pay for individual messages, and SMS messages have historically been counted in 160-character units.

Even today, AT&T's terms note that on plans without unlimited messaging, messages exceeding 160 characters can be counted as multiple texts.

But as a millennial who also routinely sends texts like: omg did you see this I'm crying lol I think my fellow millennials are being a little too harsh.

Because the more interesting difference here isn't whether Gen Z knows what a paragraph is.