Social Networking Person

This is going to be a rather short post because it's only a post because it's too long to fit on twitter.

You know how everyone things social networking is bad because people can be 'fake'? Well, social networking has also created a new (fake) grammatical person. I dub it "Facebook person" and it is when you start a sentence in third person and end it in first person. The use of the Facebook person helps deal with the awkward challenge of always making your status update a proper sentence starting with your name.

For example, my recent status update:

"Lauren Surname has 15 hours before my first flight out of the state."

as opposed to third person:

"Lauren has 15 hours before her first flight out of the state."

or first:

"I have 15 hours beforemy first flight out of the state."

Okay, so that post wasn't so short. But it amused me.


- Lauren