Every age has had abbreviations and shorthand for casual use. As long as it's clear what's intended, complaints about laziness tend to say more about the complainer than the other person.
- Scott of Two Countries
When I say "Beth" to my first born then she replies "My name is Elizabeth." If on the other hand, I write in a text message, "EBeth how r u?" then she'll just stick to the topic. It's the medium that is the difference -- verbal vs. text message. Shortcuts are just shortcuts and they are not always lazy.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
K but if ur trying 2 say a lot u gotta cut stuff down :)
- Rahsheen ™
Writing is supercalifragilisticexplealidocous and not atrocious. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Doesn't bother me too much if they're clearly doing it to save space. If the tweet is only like 50 characters anyway, then you best be spelling that out. And it didn't bother me too much on T9 phones, but again, if you're using a phone with a qwerty keyboard? Bugs me.
- Jandy
Heh, I couldn't agree more. It takes me a while to figure out what some people are saying, sometimes as far as "SMS speak" abbreviations goes. Although I am one of those rare sort of people that ends up composing a novel on the rare occasions that I send an SMS...
- Tyson Key
The importance of community. If you have a wonderful community at Friendster, or AOL, or Yahoo, why change just because your community's service provider is uncool? Now if your community migrates elsewhere, of course, the situation changes.
- John E. Bredehoft
Pretty sure Friendster is still huge in Asia, especially the Philippines
- Dan Monzelowsky
Apparently Filipino OFWs are totally keeping it alive.
- Victor Ganata
via iPod
@Victor: Kinda like how Brazilians are totally keeping Orkut alive
- Mohomed Abdullahi
Orkut's big in India too. Though Facebook is catching up. Mostly due to those quiz apps :(
- Yuvi
I wonder why it is, though, that N American Friendster users migrated en masse to Myspace, Facebook, or first one then the other, but Filipino Friendster users stayed put.
- Andrew C
It may be that a lot of people came into the game later, after the mass migrations had already happened. And sometimes it's good to be the majority and not have to deal with North Americans.
- Victor Ganata
@kirkaug I agree. I think watching Schindler's List is funnier than "Larry the Cable Guy".