Judging by appearances

[fredericks]

Just curious - personally, the use of netspeak turns me off like no one's business. I'm not referring to grammar, as I trample it gleefully on a daily basis, but simple sentence construction, punctuation, capitalization, and the "ur" thing. When it comes to casual interactions (Myspace, LJ, AIM, e-mails) if you're in the middle of "first contact" what's your take on what you're reading?

[Poll #829281]

Comments

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

Netspeak drives me completely insane.

There's this guy who IMs me all of the time, and that's all he ever uses. Whenever his IM window pops up the first thing in my mind is "Oh GOD! Just leave me alone!" I've seriously had to stare at it for 5 minutes trying to figure out what he just said.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* Your comment had me laughing for a good two minutes. I can just *imagine* you looking at this IM window. Block, my friend - it's such a wonderful option.
And yeah, I'm a snob and have blocked people just because their writing got on my damn nerves

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah. Unfortunately he told me "i have leik 5 im names and i use them 2 see whos on and if they block me". Blegh. Freaking stalker weirdo annoying kid.

Of course, I could just do what I did last time people really got on my nerves on AIM, and just change my screen name completely. Hm.

I'm glad you thought it was amusing. ^_^