Hash_Browns

I am going to have to agree with just about everything already posted in this thread. But I would also like to emphasize that I too suffer from lack of body language being expressed online. My Hubby just the other day laughed at me because I was shrugging my shoulders while having an online convo, which made me notice how often I still use my body language while typing. Shaking my head, laughing out loud...I'm sorry but lol had lost all it's luster and meaning and I only use it when I can't figure out something better to say or to appease a family member who doesn't know any better.

I have to add that it drives me CRAZY to get IM's from my cousins, who are normally very smart in person, full of the craziest spelling I have EVER seen. I get im's with 3=e 1= can equal L I but horribly placed in a word where neither of those letters were even supposed to be placed.

When I first started here I was called out on an excessive use of "..." but for me, that's just representative of my own pause in thinking before typing, and that same wasted 2 seconds it took to read it, you would have had to deal with silence as I thought about how to phrase what was said next. I try to type like I talk, which shows most of the time. Kinda is a word I use frequently in person and therefore I use it online too, it's not proper grammer, but it's how I speak. Same with gonna, which I am gonna keep using, but hopefully it won't discredit that I am not a below average thinker because I use made up words.

I hate that when I get passionate about a response for various reasons and make a comment in such a way as to try to express that passion, it just isn't possible. People already have a vague idea of who you are and it seems online it's much easier to assume someone is being an ass instead of someone who is doing their best to participate in a conversatoin (which I suffer from the same profiling of people sometimes), but is coming off differently then they intended because of other people's preconceptions. That was a mouthful...hope you understand what I'm getting at.

One more thing I hate is that my opinions don't always include big words or seemingly highly educated responses and therefore there are times where I won't even bother to respond to a thread because I don't want to be ignored or called on something beacause I don't know how to express what I'm trying to say very well. That's not to say I actually would be, but that's how I get to feeling. Where as if we would have been face to face I would have been glad to say something without fear of sounding dumb, because I would be able to better express myself with all those things already posted that just aren't conveyed online such as body language.

I have to also say that it bothers me to have people complain about certain things without even acknowledging or knowing they suffer from the very same problem...But that's just me!

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