name='sprento' said:
Why go to the bother of streching your finger to the number pad, would the 'ate' really have been so hard ? It's hard enough trying to text (txt) a girl within the 3 second time frame before you recieve another text (txt) asking why you haven't replied yet only to find out that your trusted oc3d old skool pals are at it too ! Frank Gallagher FTW !
name='sammytomjohn' said:
he is not usin the number pad spentro he is using the 8 above the lettered keys but is also nice when people use correct wording as people from foreign countries dont understand some peoples grammar other wise!
I agree with both of u on similar levels.
Then I remind myself of the arguments made 20 years ago when a topic was discussed about where the internet was going and how it would evolve.
Would it still be the case that on sites such as enthusiast areas, not wholey, but certainly by some distance, away from the mainstream of internet users.
Enthusiast site would be forums. Forums not exactly a thing u could look up in 'google' (DogPile in it's original form, not how it is today, would be a whole underground search engine for anything not only technical and enthusiast, but highly illegal with a whole lot more than a hint of Astalavista thrown in, and ofc free pr0n - without complaint and overview). What's google.
It would be foreseen that over the years to come, the internet would diminish into a place where simply looking for stuff would be made more difficult, and even to the extent that what would be considered an enthusiast (not really a word u would use at the time) area would be increasingly filled with more mainstream users, even places where a regular person would just pop in and browse away - and fearing they would actually join in too >.<
Within this fear is the thought that individualities become less and less noticeable. A guy called XXyyXX on one area would almost certainly have been the same XXyyXX on another forum. Name alone would increasingly be less and less a way to recognize who people are. The sense of individuality is gone in that sense that some pratt would these days say "oo I like that tag, I'll use it myself" without much self thought. Ofc long gone are the days where u needed a tag to put ur name in a highscore list in an arcade game. 3 letter tags growing to 5 and with the internet can be anything u like, which is confusing. There would be 50million variants of every Pokemon character - kewl ! sigh.
With this loss of individuality or recognition in that sense, there is also a leaning towards identifying people by the way they leave messages. People write in different ways, with different characteristics. If every1 left messages for each other with exact grammatical correctness, assuming also that naming is not unique, can u really believe ur talking back'n'fore with the person u think u r ?
Grammatical correctness is a place for official guides, technical texts, books and anything directed to education or news.
So what of the 'enthusiast' that was in the smaller pond that was the internet that is now in a massive ocean filled with 'anybodies' ? Who should change their ways ? Should the enthusiast change in order to conform with the majority, a majority of which are arguably part of the commercial ruining of what once was a perceived greater tool than it is today ?
Well do u get ur hair cut cos men in suits think u should ?
The term upd8 has/was around b4 the internet.
'U R B4' etc were around b4 mobile phones.
Why does it take an older person to tell a younger person that they should be themselves and not necessarily conform with what society (the internet in the state it is today) thinks u should do ?
Be urself. Don't lose the uniqueness. Just think how much more boring the internet becomes if every1 on it conformed to what society believes they should.
We've lost too much already imo.
