Hashtag Ignorantics

Should there be a cut-off character limit for hashtags? When is a hashtag too long? Should hashtags be sentences? paragraphs? stories? IJS

Ignorantics on Twitter...Get Your Tylenol READY!!!

I've been saying for months that Twitter is a place were Ignorantics breed. They tweet, retweet and post Ignorantics with little to no impunity and it is down right sinful. One of my readers turned me on to this Video Blogger who made a list of Ignorant Tweets for 2011.

WARNING: Before you watch this video, please remove all food or liquid from your mouth! This video sent me straight to the medicine cabinet searching for Tylenol. BTW, one of the comments after the video is that the people featured in these videos have all deleted their Twitter accounts! LOL...this Video Blogger has shamed these Ignorantics into ignorantic hibernation! I say that's progress!

Here it is:

Part One:

Part Two...

Folks..this is MAJOR ignorant!!!! I warned you!!!

Tyrese Doesn't Like Condesending People!

Ummm...Tyrese, I feel you...I don't particularly care for condesending spriteful people either.

Typo anyone?

It Was a Typo! I Know How to Right!

During our daily routine, many of us check Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and our emails. When we are reading, we can count on being treated to a few typos. It is inevitable.

Now, what are typos? I define a typo as a mistaken striking of the keypad that causes one to strike 1-2 keys  in error, and usually the correct key is in "close proximity" to the key hit in error. An essential element of committing these errors is that the person doing the typing knows the difference between the correct word and the typo. An example of a typo would be to type "gello" instead of "hello" or "bear" instead of "near". When discussing typos, the operative word is "close proximity". Close means the wrong key has to be at least 1-2 keys from the intended key strike. It seems rather elementary, right? Just stay with me...

The reason why this is important is because of a new category of Ignorantics, the Narcissistic Ignorantic. This Ignorantic will make up a word that sounds just like the correct word and mask it as a "typo". Moreover, when they are caught, called out, or perhaps ridiculed for their alleged "typo", their reply invariably will be "well you know what I meant"; "I think it is silly for you to point out my typos". Really?

So, I begin my trek through typo land...a world rout with deception, narcissism, and denial. Walk with me readers....There may be a few land mines, but rest assure that nothing can and will separate you from the truth or should I say ignorance.

Recently, on a listserve that I subscribe to, one of the members talked about "waste length hair" and in another post, the person mentioned that they needed to "Neill and pray". Now this is a listserve of college educated people, but I have been telling you all for the last year that many of the chronic Ignorantics are college educated people. Here is what happened...Had this person not had to write how they felt, they would have escaped undetected, but since they had to type their thoughts, the jig was up...they had finally been exposed as a Narcissistic Ignorantic.

Is there a cure? therapy? practice? peer counseling? anything? Unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "NO". Why you ask? Narcissistic Ignorantics think it's cute to be ignorant! It is like putting a positive spin or speaking incorrectly. They speak and write with no aforethought for what is correct, then they blame it on the person who brings it to their attention.

Believe or not, typos have become a new written language. I will continue to blog about typos, and I encourage my readers to email their stories. There is one typo-holic born every second, and it's up to us to expose them!

I Know that Reading is Fundamental, but on Twitter...

...spelling needs to be. To all my Twitter Junkies, I have one question: Can anyone spell on Twitter? I know there is a character restriction, but is that an excuse for spelling "the" "and" "me" "her" "his" and other two and three letter words incorrectly? I'm just saying...

I said it once and I'll say it again, Twitter provides food and shelter for the Ignorantic...its all warm and fuzzy for them in Tweetland, USA! SMH...