With advent of newsgroups came the use of acronyms to express certain phrases rather than have to type the same phrase over and over. These acronyms became more popular with text messaging and now social networking like Facebook and Twitter. It is now quite common to see acronyms like YYMV (your milage may vary), LOL (laughing out loud), ROFLMAO (rolling on floor laughing my arse off), OMG (oh my god), IMO (in my opinion), IIRC (if I recall correctly) as well many more. At the same time emoticons are widely as a way to inject emotion into online writing. These iclude :) smiling, :( sad, :P sticking tongue out but there are a lot more. Acronyms and emoticons have their place but other than a rare occasion really don't fit in well with blogging.
Why? In my opinion blogging is all about the effective use of words. It's how you use those words to describe the event so the reader can visualize it in their minds, empathize with the feelings the description evokes and perhaps move them to laughter or tears. You are the narrator of your blog so the writing style of your blog should reflect your natural way of talking.
JMO (just my opinion) and YMMV:
- If you are LOL several times in one post you are either on something or need to be on something.
- If you are ROFLMAO while writing a blog post chances are very good you are having a seizure and should seek immediate medical attention.
- If you are peppering your posts with OMG you should quit putting the knife into the toaster to prevent any futher shocking incidents.
- If you are :) several times in one post consider that there are a lot of other keys on a keyboard to use as well.
- If you are :( several times in one post it might be better to step away from the computer until you cheer up a bit.
- If you :P once in a post, shame on you! It's very impolite to :P
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