it's really starting to annoy me how some people no longer capitalize letters in their writing. i see it on facebook now. the beginning of sentences, names, even "i" is left lower cased. i guess it's just too much work to press that shift key. i can understand doing that with an old cell phone with no qwerty keyboard, but i know people who type like this simply because they like the style of it.
one acquaintance of mine told me she likes to write like this, because it makes her stand out. she said that not only she types like this when on facebook or texting friends, but in emails and even hand written notes. i won't argue with her. it does make her stand out, but not in a good way.
it's even worse when people use text shorthand in email or other communications. i can c sum1 doing it 4 twitter or if they're txting with a phone w/o a qwerty keyboard. but there's no other excusable reason.
as you can easily notice from my posts on this blog, my grammar, punctuation and spelling are far from perfect. i'm an engineering by trade, we're a type that are much better communicating with numbers, drawings, graphs and tables. but i do try my best.
it can be hard to get ahead in the professional world, please don't make it harder for yourself. little things like writing interoffice emails like this can damage your potential for advancement. how you do and say things are just as important as what you do and say.
in the workplace if you send your emails out typed like this post, how do you think it makes you looks to the recipients? someone who stands out as an independent thinker, or somebody too lazy and sloppy to hold down the shift key?
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