Comments on: Connected Lives (Part Six)

By: Michigan Seo

Michigan Seo — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:25:14 +0000

OMG is the only acronym that use. Everything else is to high school, giggling girls in the back of the class stuff.

By: Team Building

Team Building — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:52:35 +0000

A lot of people I know use abbreviations, I don’t however. They drive me nuts. I don’t like em at all and wish they would go away, but I have accepted they are here to stay.

By: Joe Takkle

Joe Takkle — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:23:07 +0000

When I see POS, I think Point Of Sale.

By: Ambit

Ambit — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:28:06 +0000

I use a few of those, like ROFL and LOL
But I did not understand what the colon followed by a closed perenthesis meant for the longest time. (the smiley face)
I just thought people had bad punctuation! LOL

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By: Jane @ Kidzarama

Jane @ Kidzarama — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:14:37 +0000

It kind of makes sense that handwriting would be becoming more popular with teens & the trend will probably continue as children with earlier exposure to computers mature.

After all, anything that’s ‘different’ is cool for teenagers, isn’t it?

And it makes sense to me too that writing skills are better recognised as important now, as almost everyone has a blog or knows someone who has one.

~ The internet is full of people who rocketed from obscurity through their blog & made money at it too (regardless of how rare that really is in reality).

It’s bound to effect teens’ worldview.

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By: crranches

crranches — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:21:59 +0000

I have heard people of all ages using the abbreviations that you mention above and more. There are is even a cell phone commercial that shows 3 different generations of people talking to each other all using abbreviaitoins and nothing else. Great post very interesting.

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By: fahrrad

fahrrad — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:24:58 +0000

I am agree with you that teens believe that internet writing techniques make no difference and do not effect their ability to write well in other settings.They should not think in this way.

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By: Eva White

Eva White — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:05:14 +0000

I think that nothing can quite replace the hand written letter or card, but that said there is the necessity to understand that short forms will abound in any sms or e-mail that you send.

By: Barbara Ling

Barbara Ling — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:42:53 +0000

“Chatspeak” is something that’s banned from my household. However, I can appreciate how the ability to communicate in shorthand via phone texting can be a valuable life skill (if time is of the essence). So I’ve recently relaxed my limitation of learning texting to my kids…but it still cannot be used within the house.

Data points,

Barbara

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By: FashionBrain

FashionBrain — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:47:32 +0000

Hmm, not sure but isn’t this what it normally sounds like when ‘grown-ups’ are discussing the younger generation? Personally, I can’t get enough of hand writing, everything from letters and cards to diary but maybe that’s just me.