Apparently, I've been sheltered from typical teens on the Internet

**massflavour** · 12-26-2007, 10:42 PM

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yea one of my better friends in real life always types like that in IMs. it's pretty annoying but I'd hate to be rude to him and tell him to quit it, cuz he's intelligent enough otherwise.

**~HentaiXXX~** · 12-26-2007, 10:49 PM

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Same as mass, but I actually told him to quit, and he said no. =|

**massflavour** · 12-26-2007, 10:53 PM

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that sux, hentai. now that I think of it I had a bit of a similar experience. I asked one of my other friends to quit typing like that and he ended up bitching about me to one of my other friends (cause apparently asking him to type correctly is too much to ask). I found out about it about a week or two ago.

**skishmonkey72** · 12-26-2007, 10:58 PM

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I'm really sorry, but being the nerd I am, I have to note the similarities between this and file compression. You have my permission to skip the next paragraph.

Chatspeak is like a compressed file. When a file is compressed, it becomes smaller, but the process of reading it takes much longer than an uncompressed file. Normal English, however, is like uncompressed files, they are larger in size, but can be read much faster than something that has been compressed.

Anyways, while I try to think in real life terms as opposed to computer terms...
Yes, chatspeak has always been one of my pet peeves. I've seen people who condense everything possible to chatspeak/n00bspeak, even when it's harder to type (aka using numbers and symbols instead of the appropriate letters), and even misspell that. It's sad, really. I'm torn between wanting to laugh at them as their knowledge of English fails in real life, and feeling horribly sorry for them, seeing how disadvantaged they are. I'm glad this is somewhat enforced on FFR. If it wasn't, I would never go on the forums.

A side note, slightly off topic: What is with people and myspace? Facebook I understand, and it's a lot more user-friendly for people who just have profiles for themselves. The only time I ever go on myspace is to visit myspaces of bands that I like, and the thought of individuals having myspace rarely occurs to me. Why not just get facebook, and take advantage of the better-designed interface and capabilities, and leave myspace to bands, who can better take advantage of all myspace's features (ie: playing music on profile)

**Magic_V2** · 12-26-2007, 11:03 PM

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At the rate we're going there is no hope for humanity, which was very accurately portrayed (in my honest opinion) by the movie, "Idiocracy".

**Popmeister** · 12-26-2007, 11:07 PM

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Originally posted by skishmonkey72

A side note, slightly off topic: What is with people and myspace? Facebook I understand, and it's a lot more user-friendly for people who just have profiles for themselves. The only time I ever go on myspace is to visit myspaces of bands that I like, and the thought of individuals having myspace rarely occurs to me. Why not just get facebook, and take advantage of the better-designed interface and capabilities, and leave myspace to bands, who can better take advantage of all myspace's features (ie: playing music on profile)

This.

**skishmonkey72** · 12-26-2007, 11:33 PM

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Originally posted by Popmeister

This.

I don't understand. Please explain? Using more words, perhaps?

**Professor Raine** · 12-26-2007, 11:58 PM

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I find it sad that the really intelligent people I know type in chatspeak when they are online. When I tell them to stop it, they get a little ticked off. But when I tell them I have dyslexia (and prove it), they feel bad and they start to write out everything as it should be read.

The moral? It seems that you need to guilt people into typing out words rather than teaching them in school that it's wrong.

**arrekusuof93** · 12-27-2007, 12:00 AM

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I'm personally not bothered by chatspeak because I started out in AOL chat rooms, slowly moving my way up the internet. I don't find shortening of words hard to read, but I do find excessive 1337speak a little difficult.

I stopped talking like that after I realized how stupid I sounded. I actually got criticized for capitalizing my ****ing letters in an AOL conversation. If this would have happened to me now, I probably would have flamed them to hell. At the time I didn't think much of it, except that the other person must have been somewhat of an idiot.

Originally posted by Relambrien

EDIT: Thought of something else. Has anyone ever experienced any situations in which someone acts so much more idiotic online than they do in life?

I've experienced this, but not much to the point of annoyance. They act more arrogant, which is to be expected of some people. As for chat/1337 speak online: the most intelligent girl I've ever known uses word-shortening and acronyms a lot. I don't think this is because she's lazy, but because she doesn't see the need to type correctly as long as it's legible.

**Zageron** · 12-27-2007, 12:18 AM

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Uhhg. I feel your pain. All of my school friends talk like that online because they haven't had the practice of typing properly. It's like..
Me: Hey, hows it going.
90% of Friends: nm u? 9% of Friends: Ehh. Nutin rely just hangin. 1% of Friends respond civilly.

Most of the conversations end there.

**skishmonkey72** · 12-27-2007, 12:27 AM

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Most of the conversations end there.

Haha, so true. MSN syndrome. I deleted all the people off my contact list who never say anything more than that. That means my list is down to something like 12 people.

Anyways, back on topic...
@arrekusuof93: Yeah, I used to speak in full sentences, with proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation to only this one friend, and it annoyed the **** out of him.
Acronyms don't bother me really, especially when they're in context, such as an acronym such as FC or SDG on the forums here, or common acronyms such as FBI and USA. It's just when they're acronyms like brb and g2g and stuff like that when it annoys me.

**Popmeister** · 12-27-2007, 12:34 AM

Re: Apparently, I've been sheltered from typical teens on the Internet

Originally posted by skishmonkey72

I don't understand. Please explain? Using more words, perhaps?

1 phrase: QFT

Oh wait, that's not appropriate to the thread...

5 words: I was agreeing with you.

Some more words: Regarding grammar, the standards of Facebook were/are generally set higher than those of Myspace. I believe Facebook is supposed to cater to high school students and beyond, whereas just about anyone can get a Myspace (even though teens and up are the general population). I guess since the standards of age and otherwise weren't set as high for Myspace, then when a group of people started tlking lyk dis, others followed suit.

...Actually, I think I was just expressing my pro-Facebook opinion before and said this other stuff to stay somewhat on topic. Personally, I don't really care how people type, as long as I can understand it and it's not just a big run-on. =\

Also, a part of it might be a lack of an introduction to forums and such. My first posts here were borderline chatspeak (maybe they actually were, but I'm too lazy to use the search button for my own posts, heh) and this was the first forum I'd ever been on that enforced grammar in some manner (others were for school, in which no one really cared at all). Just throwing that out there.

**sp1nzoK** · 12-27-2007, 12:37 AM

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I'm kind of neutral towards the "typical teen" ways, I can read it, I can understand it, I can get good laugh out of it sometimes, heck I even chat like that myself sometimes with some of my better friends who get the joke. I do prefer more mature way to handle things but I don't get irritated from seeing people acting immature.

Mostly I chat smart in "public" and take some leeway when I chat with persons I know.

Not all can tolerate the typical teens, but the typical teens have strong base on many many sites, only good rules and moderation can weed it out.

**x6tence** · 12-27-2007, 12:48 AM

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yeah I hate "txt" talk. its annoying.
why won't people just use proper grammer?
the average myspace convorsation(did i spell that right?) is like this:

hey sup?
nm
oh kewl

I mean what the heck come on folks...

Apparently, I've been sheltered from typical teens on the Internet

Apparently, I've been sheltered from typical teens on the Internet

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