An ellipsis is a group of three, and only three, periods, meant to denote a … pregnant pause in fiction, or the removal of unnecessary or unrelated passages “from … quotes” in journalism. And that’s it. They aren’t meant for your …….. ADD-ed out subject-jumping in Facebook posts or your ……………….. goddamned sense of text-related visual aesthetics. It doesn’t make you look like e … e … cummings, it makes you look like you had a stroke while trying to put a period at the end of a sentence that needed to be aborted rather than finished anyway. So, seriously, in the [probable] words of Joe Biden, “cut it … the fuck out.”