Wit's End - An Author Describes the Things She Loves (and Hates) About the Internet
Here's something I love: I love all the new words. Pwned. Squicked. Knollish. Words are great. There can never be enough of them.
Here's something I hate: the emoticon. I don't understand why the same words if written in a letter will easily convey the writer's intention, but if written in an email require the punctuation of a happy face. I'm not arguing that this isn't the case. I've watched it happen many times; most of the email dust-ups I've been involved in started because something meant as a joke was taken as serious comment. So I see the emoticons are useful. And still I loathe them. Nor do I like LOL, ROFL, 4EVA, and the rest of that ilk. A cliché is still a cliché, no matter how quickly you deliver it.
I love the blogs, but only the blogs I love and only if I don't have to do one myself.
Yes! Very well put!
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