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That's why I compose all my top secret documents in emoji. If anyone finds them they'll just assume it's gibberish from a 13yr old girl.

• dasil003 12y ago
  13-year-old girls are more fluent digital communicators than you or me.
  • reitanqild 12y ago
    Strongly disagree. This is something you will hear from a lot of places, often from people who never were early adopters of neither mail, sms or skype etc.
    • dasil003 12y ago
      Yeah well that's not me... I've been on BBSes since 1988 and got my first proper internet shell account in 1991 when, incidentally, I was 13. The reason I made the comment is because it rubbed me the wrong way to cite 13-year-old girl talk as prototypical gibberish. Are 13-year-old girls generally excitable and potentially annoying? Yes. Do they talk in gibberish as a matter of course? No, that's a thoughtless sexist trope. And I'll place a blind bet that they text faster than you.
      • reitanqild 12y ago
        Agree that the girl part should have been left out. Still think an average hn-er should be able to type faster and more correct on a normal keyboard than the average 13yo, regardless of gender.
        • dasil003 12y ago
          You're stacking the deck. Physical keyboards are ancient technology ;)
    • corpselord420 12y ago
      you use 'proper' english capitalization punctuation etc in informal context i dont think youre really in a position to make calls about digital fluency when you write like a mid 20th century layman teleported to 2014 lmao