Mark42
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Today a huge amount of info pass from one person to another via text messages. To me, (being in data processing for about 30 years) this is a big step backward. But I guess it has its place and is fast.
What I see is this huge migration of young people, (including my wife, who is about 42 years young) to this crappy short hand of text messaging. the use of "U" for "you" and "UR" for "you are" etc is just getting on my nerves.
I know how to type. Been doing it for 35 plus years. Learned on those old machines where when you pushed down a key, a big arm swung up and whacked a impression against a piece of inked ribbon into the paper. WHACK! WHACK!! WHACK! the harder you pushed, the better it looked. The less you looked at the keyboard, the faster you could type.
So I recently go from the "stone age' of cell phones to a Droid with a slide out keyboard that you can really cruise on. Even though you are only using two fingers, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO TYPE, YOU CAN DO IT FAST!!!!!!! So all that short cut stuff looks really JUVENILE!!!! Learn how to type!!!! There is no excuse for looking like you are in High School!!! ACT AND TYPE YOUR AGE!!!!!!!
If you use two fingers on a full size keyboard, YOU ARE A MORON FOR NOT LEARNING HOW TO TYPE!!!!! THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!!! Learning how to type with all five fingers on a hand is FREE and you should lean how if you don't know how. I don't care how OLD you are THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO LEARN HOW TO TYPE!!!!! They teach it for free at the local library. ONCE you know how to type, your brain will direct those two fat thubs to do the same thing on a miniture keyboard that all five fingers do on a full size keyboard. So... Once again.... THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!!!!! Its like being born into the USA by native Americans and saying you can learn English!!!! BS!!!! GRow UP!!!!
You learned how to drive a car, how to run a vacuum cleaner, how to mop a kitchen floor, how to sweep a garage, how to make a bed, how to cook spaghetti, how to use the REMOTE CONTROL on your TV!!!!!!! DAMN!!!! F'N LEARN HOW TO TYPE!!!!!!
So, if you have half a brain in your head, slow down a bit and type in the full word . It only adds a few seconds to the message, and makes you look pretty mature. TYPE IT OUT or LOOK LIKE A MORON. That is the sign hanging in our department. So many of us are sick of short hand text when there are perfectly good keyboards on cell phones, we are going out of our way to beat up the short hand kiddies.
End of rant.
I feel better now....
What I see is this huge migration of young people, (including my wife, who is about 42 years young) to this crappy short hand of text messaging. the use of "U" for "you" and "UR" for "you are" etc is just getting on my nerves.
I know how to type. Been doing it for 35 plus years. Learned on those old machines where when you pushed down a key, a big arm swung up and whacked a impression against a piece of inked ribbon into the paper. WHACK! WHACK!! WHACK! the harder you pushed, the better it looked. The less you looked at the keyboard, the faster you could type.
So I recently go from the "stone age' of cell phones to a Droid with a slide out keyboard that you can really cruise on. Even though you are only using two fingers, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO TYPE, YOU CAN DO IT FAST!!!!!!! So all that short cut stuff looks really JUVENILE!!!! Learn how to type!!!! There is no excuse for looking like you are in High School!!! ACT AND TYPE YOUR AGE!!!!!!!
If you use two fingers on a full size keyboard, YOU ARE A MORON FOR NOT LEARNING HOW TO TYPE!!!!! THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!!! Learning how to type with all five fingers on a hand is FREE and you should lean how if you don't know how. I don't care how OLD you are THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO LEARN HOW TO TYPE!!!!! They teach it for free at the local library. ONCE you know how to type, your brain will direct those two fat thubs to do the same thing on a miniture keyboard that all five fingers do on a full size keyboard. So... Once again.... THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!!!!! Its like being born into the USA by native Americans and saying you can learn English!!!! BS!!!! GRow UP!!!!
You learned how to drive a car, how to run a vacuum cleaner, how to mop a kitchen floor, how to sweep a garage, how to make a bed, how to cook spaghetti, how to use the REMOTE CONTROL on your TV!!!!!!! DAMN!!!! F'N LEARN HOW TO TYPE!!!!!!
So, if you have half a brain in your head, slow down a bit and type in the full word . It only adds a few seconds to the message, and makes you look pretty mature. TYPE IT OUT or LOOK LIKE A MORON. That is the sign hanging in our department. So many of us are sick of short hand text when there are perfectly good keyboards on cell phones, we are going out of our way to beat up the short hand kiddies.
End of rant.
I feel better now....
