Confession Tuesday: I Hate Chatty Stuff

Confession Tuesday

I Hate Chat Stuff

All of you that are reading this have been on some kind of chat thing at some point in your life. Most of you chat with people everyday, whether it is on Facebook or BBM, you always chat. Even though day after day you say the same thing. Here is an example of a conversation:

Lifeless Guy Number One: Hey.
Lifeless Guy Number Two: Hey
Lifeless Guy Number One: What’s up?
Lifeless Guy Number Two: NM. U
Lifeless Guy Number One: NM. See ya.
LIFLESS GUY NUMBER ONE IS OFFLINE

Everyday people say that, and everyday people don’t get bored. Before you text somebody can’t you just assume that they aren’t doing anything remotely entertaining and save your self a few minutes of life? I mean really, they wouldn’t be talking to you if they were doing something interesting now would they?

Another thing I hate about chat stuff is the stupid shortcuts: LoL, ROFL, OMG. Why cant you just say the actual words. Half the time you say Lol, you didn’t even laugh! Why not write CL (which means courtesy laugh) instead of making people think that they are funny! Next is ROFL, have you ever seen somebody receive a message then start rolling around on the floor laughing? Then there’s OMG. Instead of writing that, write wow or something. It’s still three letters long (saving you from the torment of having to spend a couple of seconds typing) and it is an actual word, thus making you seem less ‘buttish’ My all time worse short cut is ‘NM’. When did people become so boring that they decided, “Why not make something that says that we aren’t doing anything fun.” Did somebody get so fed up with having to write, “Nothing much because I am a boring recluse.” That they narrowed it down to two letters.

As bad as shortcuts are, they can not compare to how annoying people are when they use shortcuts in regular conversations. If I had a penny for every time I said something to someone and they said, “Lol or ROFL” I would have enough money to…now that I think about it a dollar doesn’t go very far these days. I am not going on a ‘Nicholas tirade’ I am just saying that people need to keep their annoying ‘chat language’ in cyber-conversations and not come up to me (who is one of the few that enjoys talking the good old way) and say annoying three letter shortcuts!

It is not just the annoying chats that annoy me, it is the people who are using them non-stop. The amount of people you see now-a-days on their Blackberry asking somebody, “What’s up.” And then receiving confirmation that the other person is up to ‘NM’ Is just horrendous! The other day my mum nearly ran over some dumb-ass that decided that it was a good idea the text somebody in the middle of the road!

As if speaking like a robot and texting in the middle of the road isn’t enough, I really hate the people that BBM each other when they are talking to you! There you are being interesting and actually using your voice and then they say: “Excuse me but I need to make sure that this person is up to ‘NM’.” Also, there are those that just have to text people while you’re at a movie with them. Are they blind? Can they not see the ‘turn off your cell phone’ sign. You do not know how annoying it is hen you’re at the ending of a movie and you are completely absorbed by over-exposure to awesomeness and then you are brought back to reality by the vibration of a phone.

Then there are those who go on Facebook (on your computer) when they’re at you’re house. I AM TALKING TO YOU JACOB!!! DON’T PRETEND THAT YOU DON’T KNOW!!! It is unbelievably annoying when somebody is at your house and then they decide that they have to go on Facebook to make sure that everybody is up to ‘NM’. For god’s sake people, a Blackberry is kind of acceptable I guess because it is their thing and is small. But a computer? It is your computer! And it is big and distracting! It is so annoying!

To conclude, stop messaging each other all of the freaking time!!!!!!!! RAWR (that was supposed to intimidate you into stopping messaging…it failed didn’t it.)