I'm afraid of using the same words too often. They become associated with you, and become cliche. Especially during arguments or debates. People see it coming. Maybe there are those who need their catch phrases. Like when you type it, there's an audience clapping and hooting because you finally wrote it.
" The Fonz said " Eyyy!"!! I so saw that coming!"
" So-an-So wrote " you simpering cretin", yea!!"
I've been knocked for the way I type on here a few times. Mostly when I was being harassed by another user for no reason. Apparently, I was writing like I were in a play or something. " I take my leave", was the phrase I wrote. To this user, I suppose I looked melodramatic. Melodrama isn't a good internet face, but why does it matter..? That might be my way of writing. I am associated with it. Do I type that way all of the time? I hope not.
I see the internet as a blind sounding board. I can't be hurt by it, and I can't hurt it. The words you choose are the only things anyone has to go on when it comes to deciphering who you are. If you type properly, and spell well, you're seen as one thing. If you have the stereotypical chat speak way of writing, you're seen as another. I recognize people, even when they change names, by the way they write and the words they choose. Not that they choose them often, but by the thought processes that must have gone into it.
If you insult people using words they need to check on dictionary.com first before they're insulted, you risk not insulting them. I remember, in another instance, calling someone's argument "inane" and he *corrected* my misspelling of "insane".
" The Fonz said " Eyyy!"!! I so saw that coming!"
" So-an-So wrote " you simpering cretin", yea!!"
I've been knocked for the way I type on here a few times. Mostly when I was being harassed by another user for no reason. Apparently, I was writing like I were in a play or something. " I take my leave", was the phrase I wrote. To this user, I suppose I looked melodramatic. Melodrama isn't a good internet face, but why does it matter..? That might be my way of writing. I am associated with it. Do I type that way all of the time? I hope not.
I see the internet as a blind sounding board. I can't be hurt by it, and I can't hurt it. The words you choose are the only things anyone has to go on when it comes to deciphering who you are. If you type properly, and spell well, you're seen as one thing. If you have the stereotypical chat speak way of writing, you're seen as another. I recognize people, even when they change names, by the way they write and the words they choose. Not that they choose them often, but by the thought processes that must have gone into it.
If you insult people using words they need to check on dictionary.com first before they're insulted, you risk not insulting them. I remember, in another instance, calling someone's argument "inane" and he *corrected* my misspelling of "insane".