My first PM at Gaia..

[The Librarian Battlerager]

I wasn't even around for a day and a half before I got this untitled PM in my inbox:
"nice name mail me ad me w/e"

I replied asking what "w/e" meant, and the person responded with this:

"hatever"

Nothing else, just that poor excuse for a word.
Are people in that much of a hurry? Typing, at the very least the entirity of a single word, is one of the more effortless things you can possibly do and folks generally fail at this.
It just amazes me.  

[Emmanuela]

The majority of people never read through their messages before they send them. I try, however I do sometimes miss the occasional typo. Even though, some people's typing skills are horrendous, maybe it should become compulsory in school...  

[dark_elf]

Sorry to hear that your first PM was crap. You do have a cool name. 3nodding
With me I might be in a hurry to type a message but I can type pretty fast "peck style" and even when my fingers do something that my mind didn't want I still look at it and change it. But as for spelling....well... sweatdrop .

Welcome to gaia by the way. biggrin  

[splashseal]

That does suck. Typos are one thing, but deliberately making linguistic "shortcuts" is something completely different. Truly, is it too difficult to type the complete word?  

[Galadedrid Damodred]

I feel... strange. Kind of faint. Oh my god, I think there's blood coming out of my ears...