1. Facebook is not private. When you write on someone’s wall, everyone can see it. All your friends and family and all their friends and family. And depending on how you’ve set your privacy settings, potentially everyone on the internet. If you’re a mom/dad and your son/daughter is on Facebook and you’re lucky enough that he hasn’t continually “lost” your friend request and has actually friend-ed you, don’t use his wall to remind him to take out the trash/take his vitamins/that you love him. He know, Mom. He totally knows.
2. Having the caps-lock on makes it seem like you’re yelling. No, I don’t know why, it just does. People tend to not like it when you yell at them constantly. No, I don’t know why, they just don’t. There are only a few people who are universally approved to write in all-caps all the time. I’ve compiled the following list for your convenience.
- Zodiac Motherfucker
- Samuel L. Jackson
3. Alternately, never capitalizing anything makes it seem like you’re either (a) whispering or (b) lazy. Or possibly that you’re a teenage girl who chews fruity-flavored gum, twirls her hair with one hand, and pecks at the keyboard with the other hand. Or that you’re one-handed.
4. Comment sections are strange places. They can make you feel out-of-touch (A.V. Club), make you feel like you’re part of a great big geeky community (kotaku.com) or make you want to claw your eyes out (boards.4chan.org/b/). Think of them like the Wasteland in Fallout 3. You never know what you might stumble across, but it probably isn’t going to be ice-cream and unicorns. More likely, it will be cannibals.
5. Web-comics generally aren’t funny until around the 50th one.
Tags: 4chan, avclub, caps-lock, facebook, webcomics, zodiac motherfucker
I absolutely HATE it (yes, I was yelling) when people type in upper case or entirely in lower case. I read a book way back in high school (required reading) that I’ve since forgotton the name of, but there was no punctuation or capital letters. All lower case. One big freakin’ run on sentence.
My teacher thought it brillant.
A work of art.
Forward thinking, slice of life thought process.
I hated it. HATE.
There’s that capital again.
Right there with ya’ on the pet peeves.
LOL. That’s sounds awful. I hope there were *at least* a few chapter breaks, for sanity’s sake.
Oh, high school English class, those were the days. I remember I had a teacher back then who had us write a story/poem in the style of our favorite author and then read them aloud in class. Though he’s not my favorite, I do enjoy Allen Ginsberg, so I chose him. If you’re familiar with Ginsberg, then you might already guess that my poem was not fit for reading in class and I . Ah, Ginsberg. Nothing like reading some poetry and coming across the word “c**ksucker” several times.
My grandmother recently bought her first computer and just got the internet. I’m going to make sure she reads this post.
Probably a good post for her to read if she’s just starting out. Plus Grandmas love me.