I'm just going to jump straight in with this one. Punctuation is important. All of it. However if you ask me one of the most important is the question mark wouldn't you agree? For example one of my "friends" on Facebook recently left a comment along the lines of "why. what happened.". What we have here is two very short statements. I assume that they meant to say "Why? What Happened?". As you may have noticed I also corrected the problem with their capital letters. Now this offense was rather insignificant but there have been times when the lack of a question mark has led to terrible consequences (all right it wasn't too serious, the question just didn't get answered until they pointed out it was a question a week later).
This brings me to another point: The use of full English. Now in texts the use of text language is understandable. You have to conserve letters so that you can fit it all in one text or something (my phone hasn't been on for three years). In other areas though I don't understand the use of text language. On games I feel that if you don't have time to type your message out properly you probably shouldn't be typing (however I feel that brb is acceptable as it implies you must leave swiftly). I also have a friend who writes a blog but apparently doesn't use full English. If a blog is full of "Imo" or "LMAO" it doesn't look professional. It looks like someone threw a lobster at their keyboard and hit publish post. A blog is open to the entire Internet and so, however unlikely it is, may be come upon by many thousands of people. Many will quickly ignore your blog as mindless drivel while with full English they might at least read it before realizing this.
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