Am I the only one?

Jonbo298 · 08-18-2004, 02:58 AM

On boards I do the periods quite alot too...just a habit I formed...damnit..i must stop

I use lol sometimes in city of heroes when in a group but on AIM I usually use heh most of the time.

and I dont mind if they aren't laughing. Its more of a "that was funny" thing now. If you do something like LOL or rofl/lmao, then your laughing. lol is generic now

Fox 6 · 08-18-2004, 03:04 AM

I use gtg... its just faster i guess

KillerGremlin · 08-18-2004, 03:05 AM

The 3 periods help though...you can put non-sentences together, and make random thoughts make sense!

Personally, I hate the spam out there. Not word spam, but spam spam. I went to an IRC search engine today, to find servers to download music on, and an ad for FREE ASIAN PORN1111! popped up. I mean, what the hell. I'm just doing some innocent pirating, I don't want to look at FREE ASIAN PORN1111!

Eventually, the spyware is going to catch up to Mozilla. And then we're all screwed.

Jonbo298 · 08-18-2004, 03:26 AM

Mozilla and IE is like Mac and Windows. Which do you want to infect more? A population you can possibly get 95% of or 5% of

KillerGremlin · 08-18-2004, 03:36 AM

That's true, for now, but a lot of people are switching to Mozilla. Even Mircrosoft suggested that users get a different browser to replace Internet Explorer. IE is buggy, it crashes, it's a spyware magnet, and it can't do much about ads.

Hopefully the government steps in like they keep saying they will. We need government support to get rid of all the spam out there.

Bond · 08-18-2004, 10:58 AM

What makes the internet great is also what makes it awful - it's uncontrolled.

Canyarion · 08-19-2004, 06:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

That's true, for now, but a lot of people are switching to Mozilla. Even Mircrosoft suggested that users get a different browser to replace Internet Explorer. IE is buggy, it crashes, it's a spyware magnet, and it can't do much about ads.

Hopefully the government steps in like they keep saying they will. We need government support to get rid of all the spam out there.

In Holland companies get fined for spam.

But we get most spam from the US anyway.

Ace195 · 08-21-2004, 09:11 AM

Haha my plan to take over holland is nearly complete

Crono · 08-21-2004, 09:29 AM

I totally agree with Dyne about the shortening of words.. like "thx", "wut", "ur", "2".

Is it really that hard to type a couple extra letters?

The main abbreviations I use on the net are "lol" (which,when I use it, I am never ever actually laughing... like GM said it just keeps the conversation going), "brb", and then abbreviations for video games.

quiet mike · 08-21-2004, 09:30 AM

Exactly my point.
I always welcome someone correcting my spelling, that's a good thing. But thinking that I'm not intelligent because of it it's stupid not just because spelling could come from careless typing, but also because it might just be that I (which it actually is) am not a native english speaking person, as well as more than 70% of people on the net. So determining my intligence by how bad I type and know a 2nd or 3rd language leads you to great errors in calculations.
You can see misspeling as a stupid person, or as typo's or bad english knowledge; you can see in using keyboard shortcuts for writing as a leasy person, or as a buissy person, or even a person trying to be funny or friendly.

In conclusion, you have the right to not like something, and the right to correct me when I and many others do mistake in english, but don't start judge me by this.