Users of Facebook, please take note:
I understand that not everyone is an English major or a
grammar nerd but surely everyone knows about periods and really even commas
should be common knowledge after all punctuation is taught in elementary school
middle school and high school but even worse is when a word gets tossed out
that should have an apostrophe but doesnt get one so a word like were becomes were and see you cant
even tell the difference because now they look exactly the same even though one
means we are and the other is the past tense of are before long the capital
letters are replaced with all lowercase because really why should i bother
capitalizing anything if im not going to use punctuation thats just silly and
now that im not doing nething else rite i mite as well jus start m8king words
shorter and jus type like i wuld text cuz that wuld save me lots of time 2 so u
c that it dusnt take long 4 sum1 2 really bcum
RIDICULOUS.
Seriously, are we all slowly morphing into giddy junior high
girls? It doesn’t matter whether you have a doctorate from Harvard or if you
dropped out of high school, could you please be proud of the education that you
have received and USE IT?
I am a busy mom, and the small amount of time I spend on
Facebook is my way of unwinding. It is meant to be a mindless, and therefore
relaxing, activity. So when I have to spend 10 minutes deciphering a 3-line
status update, it pretty much ruins the whole experience for me. If I had
wanted to decipher things, I would have picked up an Agatha Christie novel and
tried to figure out “whodunnit”.
If you are a street-talk, jive-talk, text typer, please
don’t think I am judging you. I’m simply… well, yes. I am judging you. I am
really sorry about that. Would you please brush up on your punctuation skills?
It would really help me contain my judgmental tendencies.
Thank you.
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