As I responded to kelly_lynn above, if I know I can get to a computer to edit them sooner instead of later, I can usually just wait to post, so they'll be around long enough to annoy anyone who'll be annoyed.
I've got these options:
Use the ugly abbreviations to make the entry fit into the limits of an SMS message,
Split the entry across multiple messages, resulting in multiple, very short entries continuing a thought,
Set up, and use, voice posting instead of text,
Consider blogging not sufficiently urgent and wait until I'm at a computer to say whatever I was going to say,
Consider the entry not sufficiently important and don't post it at all.
(What did I overlook?) While I can see there being a message I feel I need to get out quickly, the vast majority of the time I'll be inclined to post from my phone it'll be a "want" situation, not "need". (Email directly to one or more individuals is more likely to actually be urgent. But that also will annoy a much smaller number of people if I do use the ugly abbreviations (which I have, on occasion, done when emailing from my phone).
The other situation in which I'll post from my phone is when I'm really really tired, already in a warm bed, and not wanting to get cold again just to go to the next room to post the thought-I-really-want-to-share-now from a computer. Again, I can imagine situations where such a message could actually be urgent, but most often it'll be "I feel like posting this, but not badly enough to get out of bed," which probably isn't sufficient excuse for doing it in an annoying manner if people are in fact going to be annoyed. *shrug*
(Yeah, it's my own journal and I can write in it however I want, but there's no point in making it unpleasant for people if I've got a choice.)
So far the responses seem to be mostly, "It's annoying but we'll cut you slack if it's important and you can edit soon after," (phrased less presumptiously), with some, "Dear God No" mixed in. So I'm taking that to mean that it's not a reasonable way to handle posting-by-whim. At least not for the audience I've got. I'm sure that if most of my friends were kids who type like that all the time, none of them would care.
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I've got these options:
- Use the ugly abbreviations to make the entry fit into the limits of an SMS message,
- Split the entry across multiple messages, resulting in multiple, very short entries continuing a thought,
- Set up, and use, voice posting instead of text,
- Consider blogging not sufficiently urgent and wait until I'm at a computer to say whatever I was going to say,
- Consider the entry not sufficiently important and don't post it at all.
(What did I overlook?) While I can see there being a message I feel I need to get out quickly, the vast majority of the time I'll be inclined to post from my phone it'll be a "want" situation, not "need". (Email directly to one or more individuals is more likely to actually be urgent. But that also will annoy a much smaller number of people if I do use the ugly abbreviations (which I have, on occasion, done when emailing from my phone).The other situation in which I'll post from my phone is when I'm really really tired, already in a warm bed, and not wanting to get cold again just to go to the next room to post the thought-I-really-want-to-share-now from a computer. Again, I can imagine situations where such a message could actually be urgent, but most often it'll be "I feel like posting this, but not badly enough to get out of bed," which probably isn't sufficient excuse for doing it in an annoying manner if people are in fact going to be annoyed. *shrug*
(Yeah, it's my own journal and I can write in it however I want, but there's no point in making it unpleasant for people if I've got a choice.)
So far the responses seem to be mostly, "It's annoying but we'll cut you slack if it's important and you can edit soon after," (phrased less presumptiously), with some, "Dear God No" mixed in. So I'm taking that to mean that it's not a reasonable way to handle posting-by-whim. At least not for the audience I've got. I'm sure that if most of my friends were kids who type like that all the time, none of them would care.