Study: Majority of Activity on Facebook Consists of Spelling & Grammar Corrections
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On the heels of the report that Facebook has overtaken Google as the most popular destination on the web comes a new study about the activities which Facebook users most engage in, when on the popular social networking website.
“We found that users spend the majority of their time correcting others’ spelling and grammar errors. This is an interesting finding because it was previously thought that the time spent on Facebook (and other social networking sites) was completely wasted. We now know that there are a lot of educational activities going on when people are logged on,” said the conductor of the study, I. M. Aidop.
The study concluded that even though most of the corrections offered by fellow Facebook users were wrong, their hearts were in the right place.
“There is no reason to believe that the attempt to correct someone else’s minor errors and omissions has any basis in lack of general self esteem or inability to recognize and contribute to the main topic at hand and concentrate on insignificant minutiae.”
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I’m apart of the “Grammar Nazi” group on Facebook.
I sincerly hope that was intentional and part of the joke, otherwise, you mean “I’m a part” instead of “I’m apart”. Alternately, you could mean “I’m apart from” in lieu of “…apart of.” :P
Two options here.
1) You mean that you are not associated with those who correct the grammar of others and are not afraid to horrendously slaughter big words like “their”, “the”, and “of”; there’s proof enough in the “apart of” instead of “apart from”.
2) You are too stupid to throw away your keyboard and save others the trouble of writing responses like this one.
@ That Girl: well done!
First comment? Could it be something vaguely intelligent for once? No, maybe not – but at least I get it!
Ah damn, I wasn’t first… But “That Girl” you mean you are ‘a part of’, not ‘apart of’, which has a completely different meaning.
That’s the beauty of the comment. You DON’T know! XD
No, we do. She obviously isn’t or she would not have messed that up.
Why is most of the headline written on caps for every wordbut not the words “on” and “of”? That is absurd.
Not particularly! I’m hoping that’s a sarcastic comment (I don’t want to be one of those losers that misses out on the obvious sarcasm!) It’s blatantly capitalising the first letter of every ‘important’ word in the title. I may not be the best Grammar Nazi and I may have had a couple of beers but I know what I mean; and I’m pretty sure everyone else does too!!
Prepositions aren’t capitalized in titles.
I don’t remember the exact wording of the rule for this, so I’m not going to pretend to, but you don’t capitalize small words such as “on” or “of.” Ugh, I hate phrasing it like that — saying “small words” sounds stupid — but that’s the best way I can think of to explain it. Unless words such as “on,” “of,” “or,” “a,” (as in the particle “a,” obviously), “an,” “the,” etc. are at the beginning of a sentence, you don’t capitalize them.
I thought everyone knew this rule? The first time I was introduced to it was in high school. By the time you get to university isn’t it common knowledge? I realize this comment is coming off as disparaging, which really is not my intent. I suppose I am just surprised and a little bit confused.
stop the crazy comments here people…people coming here are supposed to know sarcasm otherwise this place right here is just turning into more of an fb place
The rule about capitalizing only the important words in a titles is not used in every language. It’s not used in French, for example. So thinking this is absurd is not really absurd in itself if English is not your first language :)
“I. M. Aidop” Hahaha! I love it!
Isn’t it a little ironic that all these people are correcting each other over an article about people doing the same on Facebook?
I kinda think irony is the point. This being the Sarcasm Society and all…
And no one recognized the improper use of “that” instead of “which” in the first graf? Ironic, indeed.
I can honestly say I love this website, or should that be I love this website honestly? help!!!
Honestly, you need help. :)
Well, if you’re going to be a Nazi, don’t just be the regular kind.