Sometimes I lose faith in the future of the human race…never more so than when I’m researching social networking sites. These comments are from the Bebo friends list on a profile of an author using it to promote his books (presumably if they bought any of his books, they wouldn’t be able to actually read them):
r ur books in ireland?? dey sound real good!!! r dey like d da vinci code?? dat was well good!!! wb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I DONT GET IT IS IT LIKE A BOOK IF IT IS I WANT IT I READ LIKE BOOKS LIKE NARNIA TROLLS OF THE UNDER WATER AND THE DA VINCI CODE HUM COOLEYS C YA
OMG IF UR THE AUTHOR YOU MUST BE RICH CAUSE PEOPLE WHOS BOOKS END UP BEING MADE INTO FILMS ARE RICH LUCKY I SHOULD READ ONE OF YA BOOKS IF THERE GOOD I LOOKS COOL I JUST GOT TO FINISH MY OTHER ONES HUMM IM ONLY UP T PAGE 398 ON NARNMIA AND THERE 7 00 AND SOME TIN O WELL BI BI
ur books sound really cool!!! think im gona ave2buy dem and give dem a read!!!
you look like a sawn do you write any more fine book it a gift from god
HEY WATS SUP WELL I THINK DATS COO DAT UR AN AUTHOR WELL HOWS LYFE DOIN IT
*groan*
No kidding. These kids are the future, my ass.
Yeah but, no but, yeah but, it’s like dis innit, I mean, whatever, like, as if I dint no dat, u dissin me or wot?
What annoys me more is the effort someone will go to to type like that… take Warcraft – people type ‘plx’ for please, when surely plz would be more fitting?
or someone becomes some1. Damnit your fingers are already on the o+n+e almost from typing the ‘some’ bit.
I think the divide between the ‘educated’ and the chaff will widen over the next few years…
Mmmm…ass.
: )
Yet more proof that this world is doomed.