What Kind Of Angry "E-Putz" Are You?
“The ‘e-vent’ — expressing anger via email, text or chat, or on social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter — can be hard to resist. It’s speedy: We can share our frustration with a friend, or the world, almost immediately. It’s handy: We can e-vent from anywhere as long as we have our phone. And it feels safe: We’re behind a screen. In studies, people report that they feel better after venting. But researchers find they actually become angrier and more aggressive. People who vent anonymously may become the angriest and most aggressive.”
— Ugh I cannot tell you how ANGRY “e-vent” makes me. I thought we all agreed that “e-” anything was no longer the convention. Here I am typing “email” like a schmuck, in contravention of everything I know about punctuation and style, just because I thought we had come to some understanding about those things, and we’re still doing “e-vent”? Fuck that shit. I don’t know who to complain to but I’m gonna find out NOW. Anyway, don’t “e-vent,” it’s bad for you or some psychological bullshit. Just keep it all in until you die, which will be soon because your big fat fucking angry heart can’t take much more of suffering in silence. God.