Today's writing challenge says I should talk about my top 3 pet peeves and here they are:-
- UNNECESSARY USE OF ABBREVIATIONS
The introduction of social media has exposed a lot of people - youths especially to the use of unnecessary abbreviations. As an English Linguist, it pisses me off to see those stupid abbreviations. Below are common examples of these abbreviations and their meanings
Gud am/pm = good morning/evening
WBU = what about you
HYD = How're you doing
A.H = I couldn't even figure out the meaning of this.
Looking at all these abbreviations, they are very unnecessary. We all have smart phones with keyboards which predicts words for us even before we are done typing so it really pisses me off to see someone sending me these things. It's a huge turn off!
- INABILITY TO INTRODUCE ONESELF WHEN CHATTING UP A PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME
Very often I receive messages from people I didn't give my contact to and all they say is "Hi, how are you doing, what did you cook today..." and a whole lot of very unnecessary questions. When I can't take it anymore I just feel like screaming "guy, who the fuck are you!" but I don't 😂
I can't stress on this enough 🤦🏽♀️ This particular one annoys me in a way I can't quite explain. When you chat up a person... No... (Incase other people don't mind) When you chat me up for the first time especially on WhatsApp please introduce yourself.
It's very polite to say:
"Hello, good day.
I'm Didiee and I got your contact from your Facebook page."
This is a very good start... You can go ahead to state the purpose of contacting me.
I went through your posts and I was intrigued by your writing skills, I'm a writer too.
I thought I should inform you about Hive....
Obviously from this point the conversation would be flowing greatly because first, you've been polite, informed me of who you are and you are saying something that interests me.
Even if you need me on your contact list for the purpose of increasing your status views that's very okay, simply communicate!
- WHEN PEOPLE GET VERY TOUCHY
I took deep breaths before proceeding with this particular writing. For reasons best known to me, I don't like touchy people. It's worse if you're a stranger. Please keep your hands to yourself! I feel like I have a dog around me if someone touches me too often and it makes me very uncomfortable.
These are my top 3 pet peeves what's yours?
I'm thankful to you all who take out time to read through my post. Your comments will be very much appreciated too. Thanks for stopping by.
Don't forget to do more, talk less and never get mad at another man's success.
Much love from yours truly 