Does writing in lowercase seem lazy to you?

United States
June 8, 2009 4:18pm CST
I have this habit of writing in lowercase and I always wondered if people saw it as lazy--I've run into discussions that criticize grammar in here so maybe this could be a pet peeve. i do it because it feels more personal to me like Im not this alias writing but me giving my real personal opinion. Some people write in only UPPERCASE and sometimes It looks like shouting so I use uppercase -words- to emphasize a point.
3 responses
@Josh1230 (44)
• Canada
8 Jun 09
I don't think so at all I think that is just shows that a person has not decided to press the shift key...ROFL Look at this website...most of the stuff on the website here is in lowercase...like: home interests discussions tasks blogs messages friends photos earnings myLot today's top my insterests new recent started responded friends started hot no sresponses new user best responses unresolved... That's all the stuff that I found on my web page right now that is lowercase...and there is a lot more of it...So dont feel bad! lots of people dont do uppercase things... The web designers here obviously thought it would look neat in lowercase...or maybe they were just not thinking when they made it, but anyway...I am usually bugged by lowercase everything...but on this website I think it looks kinda cool! :D Thanks!
• United States
8 Jun 09
your right--the font really works here!!
• United States
9 Jun 09
oh sorry, its 1am and im just getting back in--here i am exhausted and doing the Mylot thing--gotta love it, lol! hey ill check your site out, I have two blogs; one for me and one for the public but the public one is neglected at the moment but now Im converging out and going to do the blog thing. Your ahead of me and I don't even know what it takes to maintain a good blog, let alone talk about keeping it running to the point of getting good hits but Im excited to learn. I think your idea sounds good
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
9 Jun 09
I don't see how your correct usage of punctuation ancd capitalisation where appropriate is being in any way lazy..seems to me,it takes more effort to type correctly than cop out with txt tlk or SHOUTING!
• United States
9 Jun 09
• Philippines
8 Jun 09
Yes you are right, when we use Uppercase letters it does means that you are shouting aside from emphasizing the word itself. But for me, we were taught netiquette and that is the reason why writing in capital letters is not good because it really denotes angry or shouting to a person whom you are talking to. I don't know but if you are a regular chatter, you may have noticed that most people talk only using lower case. And in some other networking sites, they don't allow you to post a discussion wherein you are writing it in capital letters. Even in a some review sites, it is still not allowed to use Capital letters on your article. Writing in lower case doesn't denote anything about laziness nor writing in capital letters would mean that your industrious either. It denotes of your netiquette.
• United States
9 Jun 09
so writing in lowercase is good or bad etiquette?