Intelligent on FaceBook

I had a different blog post, but I reread it and realized how braggarty(yep, braggarty) it sounded, so I took it down.  What to blog about?

A friend of mine once said something like, "A large vocabulary makes you look intelligent."  Except that he said it using four words that I didn't recognize.  And he's right.  I do think of him as being intelligent, and he is.  Many a person has assumed that I'm "intelligent" because I have a rather large vocabulary.  I have learned to back off with the big words.  It doesn't help communication anyway; not if people are standing there using a dictionary every time you speak.

Something I've been thinking about for a while has gotten me blogging.  Some people look plain stupid on the internet.  Let's use FaceBook.  Some people look dumb because of content and irrelevance, some because of grammatical errors, and some because of timing.

Let me say it outright.  I am guilty of putting things that no one wants to hear about as my status.  I admit it, and I apologize.  However, I do my best not to.  No one wants to hear about my opera, and no one wants to hear about the hilarious sus chord I found.  I really try not to put stuff like that on, unless I can make it where the general facebook user finds it funny.  If I put every status that ever popped into my head, everyone would unfriend me, I promise.  Some people just put plain dumb things without thinking about it.  Especially when they put stuff that gives you no idea what they mean.  Say, "blah" or "hahahahaha" or "shut up" or "funny".  I have done this at least once, I'm sure.  But the vast majority of my posts can be understood by the average reader.

Grammatical errors run rampant on FaceBook.  It's ridiculous.  I won't get into this.  Let's just say that "your" seems to be the universal choice for your AND you're.  Ugh.

Timing.  How does this relate to posts?  Well, please don't post "This is the best day of my life", right before you post, "He is SUCH an idiot".  I've never had anything this extreme show up on my wall, but you get the idea. Right after you post "God is so amazing", please don't let your next comment be filled with cuss words.  Again, I'm being extreme, but I've seen it on other people's news feed.

You can look really stupid of FaceBook.  You can also look intelligent.  I have been told by several people that my FaceBook info is so "funny, and intelligent looking".  I don't know about that, but thanks.  I'll take what I can get.

I hope I never make myself look very stupid on FaceBook.  Hopefully, Tishmeister will keep me in line.