You Are How You Type!

I can usually tell when a teacher or educator sends his or her students to this site for a homework assignment. How do I know?

I get a slew of inquiries through my contact form with the same cut and pasted list of homework questions. Which of course I don’t respond to. And, I also get a bunch of post comments that are waiting for my approval.

What do these comments tell me? Well, they aren’t pretty (profanities, rude insults about me and my family, how my site sucks, you name it). But they are ironic in that those who actually take the time to type these visceral and ignorant comments, on an E-mail Etiquette site none the less, type as though they haven’t made it out of kindergarten. Maybe they haven’t? I have heard of 5 year olds being being more computer savvy than their parents.

Typo laden, misspelled words, lack of proper punctuation — and the frosting in the cake that wraps it up with a bow is they don’t even capitalize their name! I always chuckle when I hit the delete button as I wonder if this is really how they will feel and how they will be communicating when they try to enter the job market. I highly doubt it if they truly want to be employed.

The point here is that even if you have an opinion, you totally undermine any credibility your comment may have had by not communicating as an adult and using proper grammar. Your entire commentary goes right out the door when you choose to type personal insults, digs, threats and profanities at someone you don’t know who simply may have a different opinion than you.

The apparent lack of maturity and education reflected by these middle school and high school children makes me wonder if they will ever see the importance of polishing their communication skills so that they are taken seriously. For their sake I certainly hope so.

You are how you type!

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