Yay, my first blog post ever. As someone who IMs all day long, here are some annoying things that I do, or that others do, when IMing. For the record, I never realized what a loser I really was until I composed this list:
1) Shorthand (I’m sure everyone’s familiar with some of these):
fs = for sure
bfd = big fucking deal
btw = by the way
rofl = rolling on the floor laughing
lmao = laughing my ass off
wtf = what the fuck
omg = oh my god
lol = laughing out loud
ttyl = talk to you later
brb = be right back
k = ok
thx= thanks
idk = I don’t know
pic = picture
perfs = perfect
defs= definitely
c/p = copy and paste
mtg=meeting
am or pm = morning or afternoon/night
2) emoticons:
the smiley, sad, tear, winking, and warble faces. They can get pretty creative with puking faces, devil and angel faces, animal faces, hearts, broken hearts, etc. I've made hangmen before. There’s hundreds. A friend of mine and I also use (8) for music notes if you’re singing a song. This shortcut used to make an actual picture of music notes appear on MSN messenger. Now we use Gmail where no notes appear, but it’s like a known meaning now (at least for us….).
3) sound effects:
grrr, arg, roar, sigh, blech, pshhhh, barf, ew, aw, mmmm, hmmm, haha, hehe, eh?, gasp, drool, whimper, whine, clap, etc.
4) Exaggeration (and lots of it):
*I’m soooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired
*I’m so piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed
*Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm are you sure you want to do that?
*Omg that’s toooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*:(((((((((((((((((((((( = super sad face
*Lololololololol = when something is so much funnier than a plain “lol.” Sometimes it’s lolol or lololololololololololololololol depending how funny you want to make it; caps make it further emphasized
*Wtfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff = screaming the f bomb
*…………………………. = drawn out pauses
*#$%@&FKASDJASD@##$%^QW = misc. anger
*Using dashes or returns for emphasis:
I’m
such
A
loser
or
I’m a lo-s-er
5) References to other web places:
*Check out this video! www.youtube.com/randomfunnyvideo45871
*do you like these shoes? www.aldoshoes.com/partytime/08542
*have you seen the virgil sage’s latest post? www.virgilblog.com/dec1308
*omg, look at this pic www.funnypicturetime.com/1033
6) Parentheses if you want to use a different voice (this might be just me):
*and my dog was like (pleeeeeeeeeease take me out for a walk!) but I was like screw you dog, I’m having a beer
*my boss was like (blah blah, I’m an idiot, blah blah)
7) General improper use of /lack of punctuation and grammar plus spelling errors/typos
*interpretation of spelling errors, especially if the other person is a bad typer or in a hurry
*no apostrophes or commas or periods
*shorthand letters and/or numbers “ur 2 cool” or “4eva”
*leaving off parts of words, like no “g” on “-ing” words or “n” for “and”, or "em" for "them", etc.
*smooshed words: gonna, wanna, kinda, sorta, etc.
Hope that helps you!
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There is also this commercial on texting plans from AT&T which "translates" everyone speaking text language:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc
One more thing I noticed when I finally checked my abandoned myspace page this weekend. You can also create moods and they have those bulletins/announcements you can send out to all your friends.
ReplyDeleteForgive my late entry...this has probably already been discussed, but there are also those boxes where you can put books, music, etc and the people who insist on filling them with every album they've ever listed to, every book they've ever read, etc.
I also tried to look into this Twitter thing which they call a "microblog". The point is to answer the question: What are you doing right now? So basically it's a stripped down Facebook with only status updates and instead of people being your friend they "follow" you, much like people can follow a particular blog.