Help, the aliens are posting... blogs!

Stephen, that's absurd! That is not the "evolution of language". That is DEvolution. I wonder if you would support shortening "you" to "u".

Just because there's "hordes of MySpacers" doesn't make the butchering of language okay. Not everything that is okay by the masses is actually okay. Ask the drug user.

You know, the folks on the Working Parents blog right here do the same thing. And so does the Washington Post exec who's blogging about her new book, "Mommy Wars."

It could just be a newbie/early adopter thing that's fluid and changing with exposure/experience. Like how people used to call sites "homepages" or "webpages". [of course, my grandmother still calls them that.]

There go the people.
I must follow them,
I am their leader.

The language comment is true and very funny in this context. MySpace is an interesting sub-culture spawning numerous oddities.

English is just French and German that morphed. What you are talking about now is no longer English but Unglish - the new world language. Let it rip. Or you may be needing Mandarin lessons.

Their lingo could spread. Along with broken English and forgotten penmanship. These people who can't craft a honest M or write their own names with a simple pen are going to type their way to the top and rewrite history? You guys invest in it and we'll write about it. It sounds like a pretty deadender situation. You have your knowns, your known unknowns and your unknown unknowns etc. etc...I don't know.