stop saying "do tell."
e.g.: "[friend on facebook] is SO proud of her husband, he rocks!!!"
First of all, I hate this kind of vague-n-personal status update. It's lame, and at least this friend did not make a negative one, e.g. "...is really disappointed and can never trust a man again," or "...is going to the hospital :( " or "...can't stop crying." But what all of these statuses have in common is that they're fishing for comments and likes.
What pisses me off even more than the statuses themselves are these people's friends who actually fall for it! Do they not have telephones or private email accounts to share personal news? Is a facebook status really the only way they have to communicate with the world?? The responses to the "SO proud of her husband, he rocks!!!" status were as follows:
"Why? Do tel....." [sic]
"for what? Just in general? : )"
I get that this example isn't that bad, because there's nothing wrong with broadcasting an encouraging shout-out to your spouse's achievements. I know there are worse things. Believe me! But "do tell," especially when the writer doesn't care enough not to check for typos, is as bad as "what say you?" or any number of formal-sounding small-talk terms like it where the speaker almost never actually cares how you respond.
2 comments:
I use do tell. What of it?
i kind of like "what say you?" b/c lets face it, no one really uses it. also, i hate shout outs like that too, mainly because they make me feel guilty b/c i would never do a shout out like that. and i feel guilty for thinking they are lame.
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