Internet speak versus real-world writing...........Krista the Instigator

Heya, USM. Long time-no see! Well, Let's get straight to business.

When you chat on the internet, do you use the same type of writing as you would when in school doing an essay or even casual homework (for lack of better example... oh Lord)? I ask a lot of my peers this question, and seeing as most of them are teenagers (around fourteen or fifteen), and most of them say, in their terms, "ugh lol no i write like dis bc its eezier y dont u".

I generally write the same across the board, from doing an essay to writing a message on an online forum. I personally think that always being meticulous when writing will improve your style and grammar even when it doesn't have to be completely correct. Besides, I always get uneasy when I spell something wrong or if my grammar is a total trainwreck (much like that of my peers, actually!) because it looks like I'm not fourteen, but seven, and it looks as though I haven't been educated properly.

I really don't understand the excuse "well typing lyk dis is eezie rite", because for me, it's not. It takes me ages to intentionally mess something up--that phrase alone took me thirty seconds of staring at the keyboard, recalling how too many of my peers type. It doesn't take too much longer to type out "you" instead of "u" and typing an extra few vowels and here and there really isn't so hard, in my opinion. I understand a few spelling mistakes here and there, but if you're old enough to be on the Internet or on Facebook, then you're probably old enough to spell well enough that your writing is legible.

Anyway, here's my point: do you type as if you were writing an essay, or do you use "text-talk" and colloquialisms?

Looove,

"Dang it, I was offensive again" Krista

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