08-22-2006, 02:12 PM
It's also annoying in e-mails, and I personally find it annoying in IMs too. There's a line between common and acceptable shorthands to me and the ones that drag it too far - "ru busy" and "ur hott" really grind my gears, but I can handle things g2g, brb, lol, and such -- obviously if I'm going afk I may not have the time to type those extra keys to say "away from the keyboard", and if I'm in enough of a hurry to notify people I'll brb or bbl, it's a rush situation.
But in a typical conversation, and this is one thing I really hate, there are some people who not only use those shorthands (and ignore capitalization as well), but who will use those shorthands and send you 5 short messages faster than you can read or reply to one of them. People who will get pissed if you don't immediately reply within like one minute, like you don't care about them -- hell, most of the people I talk with online mean little to me (they're acquaintances, not quite up to the level of friends), but the ones who are important realize that because of who I am, I don't rush responses, even if some are shorter than I like...
But in a typical conversation, and this is one thing I really hate, there are some people who not only use those shorthands (and ignore capitalization as well), but who will use those shorthands and send you 5 short messages faster than you can read or reply to one of them. People who will get pissed if you don't immediately reply within like one minute, like you don't care about them -- hell, most of the people I talk with online mean little to me (they're acquaintances, not quite up to the level of friends), but the ones who are important realize that because of who I am, I don't rush responses, even if some are shorter than I like...