*CAUTION* I am NOT making a personal attack on anyone!! :) ;) :) ;)

I talk on Instant Messenger a lot. It is extremely addicting. I wish I had never been introduced to this sort of communication. My mom thinks I will be able to keep in touch better with my friends than she did. But I think if you truly want to stay in touch with someone you will without the insignificant "whats up" conversations.

It is also extremely annoying. I catch myself writing "gonna" "lata" and everything else of that sort on papers and professional e-mails, sometimes on applications, which requires me to get an eraser or start all over again. Needless to say, it's irritating and wastes my time making stupid mistakes like that.

Instant Messenger has caused me so many problems thatI would like to point a few of these out. Now.

1. I get into fights with people and I don't even know I'm fighting with them. If I'm busy and just reply with a "nothing" something is supposed to be wrong. If people start off with a heyy!!! and I put a heyy then something is suppossed to be wrong. If I leave my computer for a moment, to perhaps get a snack, and I do not respond right away: then something is wrong.

But usaully nothing is wrong.

2. My cousins in New Jersey also talk differently. People have made ONLINE accents and slang that I do not always undertand. This is what my cousin said, or typed rather... "n i was like wut and den he explained". I responded by putting up an away message. Which can have a blog post all on their own.

My biggest pet peeve though is not that at all.

3.It is those smiley faces. HOW do you respond to a smiley face? Or moreover, five of them at the same time. And is it really okay for guys to be sending five of those at the same time? I don't know.

Someone should make Instant Messenger regulations.

I would love to post more but my cousin sed dat der waz sumthin he needed me 2 talk bout.

Lataa :) ;)