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A trend I've noticed with Facebook
BustedCat
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I've began to notice that the people who I've added from school who didn't go to university seem to 'tlk lik diss xxxx'. Whereas the people who I know from universities often write in complete sentences often accompanied with witty jokes or political commentary. I didn't realise how big the difference was until I went on an old school friend's wall and I couldn't barely make out what most of the status were about. Now I can understand using 'txt spk' when sending texts or even when you want to save time, but I can't for the life of me why people start adding letters or substituting other letters in words, for example spelling 'think' with a 'f' makes no sense. 
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I couldn't help but notice how many people added him as a 'friend' but never acknowledged his existence at school
Notice how I'm constructing sentences?
(btw, one was English!)
That always confuses me why would people who ignored you want to be your facebook friend!
Even worse the girl who bullied me in school and made my life miserable requested to be my friend!! I had to laugh!
I was just pointing out a trend I noticed while surfing on Facebook, of course there are always exceptions.
Anyway, I requested him on facebook through a school group just wondering how he was getting on, thinking he'd probably matured somewhat. Noooooo, he wrote on some app on my profile ' she hated me at school and yet we are now facebook friends' I didn't hate him! I didn't feel one way or the other about him he was a classmate for 5 while years of my life though. I deleted him a few months later as he kept putting stupid statuses about having a clean up of all the people on facebook that didn't even talk to him, so I saved him a job.
I can understand people feeling angry towards genuine bullies but feeling anger 15 years later towards people that laughed at your silliness a bit??? Let it go people, let it go!!!
To be fair, sometimes even I just take the shortest route with facebook updates and I have almost finished a degree in Linguistics. So even though you could probably argue that there is an obvious educational divide you can't always judge a person by facebook! For me text speak doesn't annoy me half as much as people who use stupid words like "sik" and "well good mate".
The thing about spelling that annoys me on FB is when people are attempting to 'have a rant' about someone else of FB and they spell words wrong or have sentences that just make no sense!! When you are speaking a rant the words are out of your mouth before you get the chance to think about it, but when you are writing it, you have the time to stop, take a look at what you have written and see if it makes sense!!
I also never went to University and only obtained my poor solitary A Level when I attended night school about 10 years after gratefully leaving education behind.
However, I am always very conscious about the way I construct sentences; I always try to use the most suitable vocabulary for the situation (the mot juste you might say) and never, ever use text speak. I even write in complete sentences when I do send text messages - Even remembering to put 2 spaces after a full stop.
Was the OP trying to draw some serious and definitive conclusion about grammar and English usage dependant upon the posters level of Higher Education based upon Facebook posts or do you think that it was a sweeping generalisation derived from thier own limited circle of friends?
ur yeah it'z in da title, doh! or iz dat some sort o universal-city type o' talk
I dunno maybe it woz da use of "Sentances" that made dem fink dis way.
i had that, i have half my school year group on my friends list, i was a musician so about as popular as pond life, do they speak to me now? nope. also i dont have a pic of myself so they wouldnt know what i look like if they saw me on the street lol
You'll notice that I never said that I was able to spell, however.
Thank you for pointing that one out - I blame the keyboard and shall be editing the post - Even though the evidence will reamin in your quote.
If I'm speaking to older people, family and people on DS, I obviously would speak in complete sentences.