[18:10] The Meric Chronicles™

Above. I stumbled upon a feature I wish any website with user accounts would have.

Basically, it prohibits users from entering texts with annoying non-standard capitalizations.. a trend which has awfully plagued the internet.

Yes, the alternate caps.. and yes, I'm pointing out the most obvious culprit of this... Friendster.

As much as I don't appreciate blatant txtspeak, aLtErNaTe capitalizations come even worse. When people communicate, let's say via the english language, there's no need to turn words/texts in something close to encrypted data! You weren't trying to encode your words for enhanced privacy, right? Then consider the receiver and type it right!

I mean, even babies who are still learning to write don't write CrAp LiKe ThIs!!

I jUsT dOn'T SeE WhY So MaNy ReTaRdS kEeP TyPiNg ShiT LiKe ThIs ThInKiNg iT iS So CoOl?? ThIs Is NoT iN aNy WaY CuTe, jUst a DeFiNiTe EyEsOrE, AnD dOwNRiGhT AnNoYiNg!!

Then convert that into text speak, and you have a strong password already! Great eh? So then if we merge the two we have the P4s$w0rD_Sp1K trend? (password speak, if you didn't get it)

Just great, no wonder sci-fi writers always depict the future as a machine/robot-dominated generation.. We are starting to adopt gibberish communication (low-level; machine language) as well.

But for the meantime.. kudos to Facebook for preventing these eyesores. :)