With video calls, once you're gone, you're gone, it's abrupt, when you see everyone waving, you know that everyone is prepared for this call to end and you're not going to be suddenly hanging up on somebody.

Gretchen McCulloch

Gretchen McCulloch is a Canadian Internet linguist. On her blog and her podcast, "Lingthusiasm", she offers linguistic analysis of online communication such as internet memes, emoji and instant messaging. She writes regularly for Wired and previously did so for The Toast. In 2019, she published a book on internet linguistics, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.

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