Some chat room moderators make it clear to not type in all caps as other participants perceive it as shouting.
How about email?
When you get an email in all caps, do you perceive it as shouting? Or just a lazy typist who won't take the time to shift the case key as appropriate?
How do you FEEL when someone types a message to you in all caps? Or at least, what is your first impression before you are able to fully digest what they are saying?
By the same token, when someone types a message to you over internet and they include zero capitalization, zero to little punctuation, and everything is all lower case -- do you feel slighted in some way? Like maybe you are so unimportant to that person that they couldn't take an extra half-second to correctly capitalize your name, the beginning of a sentence, proper nouns, etc?
Or is the standard now that no-one knows how to type or punctuate correctly so if you actually DO take the time to do these things, YOU'RE JUST WEIRD, MAN!
2007-12-11
01:01:10
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John S.
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