On Facebook, what does the "status" post mean to you? I believe it means that you post how you are feeling or what you are doing at the moment, right? Not for the Ignorantic. For them, it is a time to be a poet, life coach, relationship expert, drive-by psychiatrist...with no regard for who CAN'T read what they are writing.
In many instances, it is also a time for some Ignorantics to engage in an ignorantic cleanse...to vent, to express themselves. It is an opportunity to just write freely....grammar, verb tense, spelling be DAMNED.
Case in point...Meet my first Facebook offender, for the purposes of this post, and in the interest of protecting his ignorantic identity, we'll call him "Coulda Woulda Should'nt Have":
WE GONNA TRY THIS ONE MORE TIMES, IS ANYBODYS LISTNIN? (RELATIONSHIPS ONLY LAST UNTILL ONE OR THE OTHER CAN'TS HAVE, ITS WAY, AFTER DAT, ITS ALL DOWN HILLS, WEATHER U REALIZE IT OR NOT. SOME SAY, OHH, I JUST LETS IT GOES, IM NOT WORRIED BOUT DAT, BUT IN DAT BACK OF THE REJECT'EE'S HEADS, ITS A RAP 4 U, SO NEXT PLS, LOL
Great advice, you say? Did you "LIKE" that? More importantly, did you understand it? Are you still breathing? Hard to believe isn't it? As I read it, I asked myself "why bother with punctuation?" If you are going to drive down that Ignorantic Highway in the status lane, why cross the dotted line and pass the grammar car just to punctuate? Keep it simple. Stay in one lane, use caps, periods, run-ons, verb tense flips, several "DATS" for artistic form and keep it moving. After all, instead of a ticket, you might just get the coveted "LIKE" from your friends...and for the Facebook Ignorantic, that is as important as an oil change!
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