This Bothers Me: Flaws of IMs.

"Change is the only constant" Words that speak too true for the technological world. There are always strives to improve lives, whether it be to find a cure for an infectious disease or to just make checking email less of a hassle.

There is one thing i noticed though, instant messaging has become an epidemic. In theory, the concept was ment to support easier communication for people coast to coast, land mass to land mass. In many ways, this idea has been innovation and has obviously been adopted by many big names such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN and even some of the more popular social networks.

This topic however, relates to the darker side of Instant Messeges. Just as much as it has made conversations versatile, it has hindered our progression as mankind to be articulate.

How could that be possible? Just think about it. I am going to display a list of things that IMs have not helped, but hindered, in a more educated world:

1)Grammar: Probably the most evident and deserving of the number one spot. People just don't have the spelling or grammatical skills that we had when we actually cared how intelligent we sounded.

2) Sentence structure: If someone was IMing you with proper sentence structure, it would more then likely be considered weird.

3) No sense of tone in writing: I may be going out on a limb on this one but sometimes i don't know what the hell people are trying to imply with trivial statements.

4) Signing off mid-conversation: I see this mostly with facebook, i mean honestly, if you sign off because you forgot that you were talking to someone 20 seconds ago. I would get the impression that you have the tension span of an 8 year old.

5) Abbreviations: Lol, omg, wtf, go 2 the store. You can name it. Sometimes you see people that type with more abbreviations then words and you can barely understand what they are saying.

These are some of the things that us, as a human race, have recended our capability to write with. I see people with college educations miss-spelling the most simple things, it astonishes me.

Now, this has been a grim post in many senses so i figured i'd post something i made last night to lighten the mood:

This pretty much sums up what this entire post has been about. A picture is worth a thousand words.



Until next time, I heard your chick has [Double D]'s.