STORM2K

I always (well, almost always) use proper capitalization and punctuation in IMs [and e-mails]. How about you?

I am glad to see that a very many of us on this site capitalize the first word in sentences and use periods, commas, etc. where necessary. It only take split seconds to use the shift key.

Definitely, yes. I try to be as punctually correct as can be.

I'm the same way, Tom and Mike.

I do most of the time---feel funny if I don't.

heck no, I abbreviate and use numbers to represent words, you think Im literate here, I fly planes..altitude kills the brain cells you know
LOL
MIKE

A lot of the people I correspond with on AIM do not use capitalization an punctuation. I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone here does and/or thinks about this.

Thanks Mike, Eric, bfez and Mike for the responses thus far.

Ms. Correct Punctuation, here, unless you read my posts over
at the Ladie's Bar topic...where staggering and swaggering
is allowed!

LOL Breeze.

Well I must say I am pathetic with English grammer in general and am kind of a cheat. I just type, especially when I am on IM, I can type much faster than I can think!!!! :o

In posting, I usually have plenty of time to correct minor typing glitches...not so in IM, but I do employ caps and lower case at all times.
(Please note that I have never learned to touch-type...I use a "pharmacist's" four-finger, two-hand style.)

Yes I do. I learned to type the old fashioned way - taught by a very strict nun at my Catholic all girls' HS. Manual typewriters, carbon paper, etc. What fun - it was torture! But somehow I learned to type using home row, not the hunt and peck method my husband uses. And so punctuation and capitalization just go hand in hand in anything I type. In chat rooms I used to use shortcuts but now I'm back to complete words too. Contrast that to my 15 year old's emails to friends - yikes!!! Very few words, just abbreviations. And forget the rest. Cute though....I smile at her emails.

I do. I guess it is just habit though.

i dont just abbreviations and short hand

I always type them the same as I do posts and emails.

I use home row, too. Using home row apparently does get one more used to using shift.

Most of the time I do. It depends on how lazy I am at the time.

Tom - so glad to see someone else uses home row. My kids have asked what those raised dots are for on the j and f keys......LOL If you type that way you know immediately when you're off home row. You're typing nonsense!

I use caps & puncs.

I try to use the proper way on message boards, chatrooms and Instant Messages.

Wow that brings up memories on learning to type - I too learned on the old manual typewriter with carbon paper and the HOME ROW. My hubby and daughter are at awe when I can type without looking at my fingers. I can't be in the computer room when my hubby is pecking away at the keyboard - drives me bonkers.

Patricia

LOL Ticka. I also am a Home Row typer! I will often say to my hubby, can I help you type that letter, because it is just so painful to watch him try find a letter on the keyboard!

I learned to type on a typewriter, the old fashioned ones that go DING when you end the row. That sound used to drive me batty. I learned to type at school. They used to put a black cloth over the keys so you did not look down. Did you also have to do the silly exercises and type a load of drivell? I am very greatful now that I learned to touch type, I dont know what I would do without that skill.

HEY MS, your not lazy are you???
LOL
MIKE