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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
I am a social media iconoclast, don't tweet, don't Face, never (My)Spaced out.
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You're not alone. Before I had my business, I was nowhere on the Net. I mean, NOplace. I had some dork SEO guy bet me that he could find out everything about me on the Net--and he lost. (Given that it was a 4-digit bet, he was not a happy camper.) But then, I had the biz, and lo, ignoring social media was the KOD. (Kiss o'Death). I loathe it--I do.
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A co-worker insists that Reddit is the best thing since spice racks. I don't understand the attraction of spending hours sifting through troll comments and "me too" comments and "plus one" comments and obscene comments to *possibly* find a lonely sentence worth reading. But she is young, and apparently does not feel her time is valuable --- and has millions (billions?) of co-believers.
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I've found a few Reddit threads worth reading, but you are correct about the trawling for content. Of course, hell, 95% of the net is that way.
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And as for what texting has done to the English language!!! I am gob-smacked at some text-speak phrases I have seen popping up in Formal Memoranda!
Does texting in other languages wreak the same sort of havoc?
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I have to pay close attention--I've actually found myself doing it. I correct it, of course, but still; and the bizarre part is,
I don't text. My smartphone doesn't work (mountains) in either my home or my office, so...{shrug}. Never got into the habit of it. But I find in forum posts I will start to type b/c for "because" or FWIW or...it's contagious. Unfortunately so, too.
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