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Facebook Junkies: Santa is Watching!

Another Installment of Facebook Ignorantics

This is a copy of an ignorantic rant on Facebook. The name and profile picture have been changed to protect the Ignorantic:

A notice to my facebook friend's who wishes to continue receving facebook for free. my message was up right when i sent it out, now a technician has it mixed and turned all around...hope you can read or figure it out..thank you my tec friend.

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Tn Apparently he want's me off of facebook that i may not qualify for the free service.

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Tn He is a muslem that want's to control my page! apparently he works for facebook.i do know his name and i have had enough of this non sense.

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Tn Tex me now,whom shall i bring my complaint too?

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Tn He does not want you to talk about your God he is against christianity(period) i need your help my face book friend's.

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Tn Please beleave me this is no game!

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New ignorantic words:

-beleave

-Tex

-Muslem

-receving

There may have been more words but I started getting dizzy. I'll let my readers at the rest of this...

Who Knew That a Facebook "POKE" Could Be a Form of Flotation!

WOW! Poking can be fun on Facebook as long as it is a form of flirtation. When it becomes a form of flotation, the waters become a little murky...

The Ignorantic who uttered these words needs a life preserver...

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!

Facebook Ignorantics...The Stuff We "LIKE" to Read

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!