A little fun :)
Last night we were talking about the necessity for social context cues in interaction...that we have to be armed with this observable information on those we're talking to (which we are in f2f) to be able to pitch our verbals appropriately...or we deindividuate and self-focus. Sometimes, the written linguistic style is enough to provide a very salient social context template even in the absolute absence of 'facts' about those we speak to....such as when we read something written in txtspk. It yells social context with a thunderous roar. See what you would 'look like' talking in the style of a 12 year old AOL chatter. IT DAFINIETLEY SAYS MRO3 THAN DA WORDS.SE!!1!!1!111!!11!11!!11!1 OMG WTF LOL C U SON AL
(Yeah...whut ^ said)
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WHIEL OF COURS3 W3 HAEV HAD WRITEN COMUNICATION FOR MANY CENTUREIS DA ADVENT OF EL3CTRONIC MEDIA HAS GIEVN US AN INSTANTAENOS VARSION!!11!1!1! OMG LOL AS SUCH IT BCOMES A FUSION OF T3XT-BAESD AND VARBAL-COMUNICATION AND THES GIEVS US PHENOM3NA SUCH AS LNGUISTIC STYLA AS A SOCIAL SIGNIFEIR !1!1!1! TRADITIONAL WRIT3N COMUNICATION VIA DA LETER SI AN INHERENTLEY FORMAL MEDIUM AS 3ACH PARTY HAS TIEM 2 RAVEIW AND CONSTRUCT THERE SUBSEQUANT REPLEIS!!!!1!1 OMG WTF IN DA DOMANE OF INSTANT M3SAGNG THEYRE SI A TIEM CONSTRANET TAHT STRIPS AWAY FORMALITY AND R3VEALS A MUCH LES SCULPTED LNGUISTIC APROACH!!!!!111! WTF
IT WUD B C3RTANELEY TRUE TAHT U CUD MAEK SNAP JUDG3M3NTS ON A P3RSONS SOCIAL STANDNG FROM ANYTHNG TAHT TH3Y HAD WRITEN!1!!!! PERHAPS THES BCOM3S CL3AERR WITHIN AN IM CONTEXT FOR TEH R3ASONS OF INFORMALITY TAHT I MENTION3D EARLEIR!!11!1 WUT SI PARHAPS MORE INTERESTNG SI TEH POSIBILITEIS FOR PAOPLE 2 MIMIC SOCIAL CONTAXT CUES MUCH MORE SUC3SFULY THAN SI POSIBLE IN DA F2F WORLD!11!!11! WTF A SINIST3R EXMPLE OF THES WUD B ADULT PRATANDNG 2 B CHILDREN ONLIEN - IN A WAY TAHT SIMPLEY WUD NOT B POSIBLE IN TEH F2F WORLD!1!11!11 OMG ON A MOR3 GENERAL NOT3 IT SI LIEKLEY TAHT PEOPLA ADAPT THEYRE LNGUISTIC STYLE 2 MATCH TAHT OF WHO TH3Y R TOKNG 2!!111 OMG WTF LOL THEIR SI OFT3N A MIS-MATCH BTWEN HOW P3RSONALITEIS R CONV3YED IN DA CYBRV3RSE 2 HOW THEY R IN ACTUALITY
!1!!!!! OMG LOL
Heheh. So what does that say about 'social context cues filterd out' models such as Sproull & Kiesler? Without ANY information about who you are, where you are or what you are, I would read that and think two things: At first glance: "Wow..cringe. (back away slowly Deb). 14 year old with sugar rush". Then this: "Hmm..hang on a min, the content waaaay belies the style. Some dude pretending to be 15. Don't back away slowly...leg it!" :)
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