OMG

I use IM a lot, because I often find myself bored to tears at work. But I'm still learning what so many of these "codes" mean. It took me a while to figure out "lol" meant "laugh out loud"- not "lots of love". I wondered why these people I barely knew were expressing such sentiments. When my brother IM's me, I can barely tell what he is saying and I wonder why he feels the need to use so many shortcuts. He's not in a hurry. Why rush things...type out "talk to you later" rather than "ttyl"...does it save that much time? Of course, I often have the inabiltity to spell things out like the college graduate I am...example: a sentence such as "what are you doing" will come out reading "whard yug arjls". Thus confusing the recipient and making me look like I'm typing while intoxicated. I also like that I shorten "ok" to just "k". Because if I were even to think about typing that "o" it would set me back light years in terms of productivity. I cannot risk this. I shouldn't knock it- I often wonder what people did at work to entertain themselves in the old days (you know, the early-mid 90's) Maybe I would read more if I had no one to talk/type to. And maybe I would be better off.
reagan