What Annoys Montanans the Most on Social Media

"Let us hear it. This should be entertaining." 

A "Big Sky Memes" social media page asked readers about "things that people do on Facebook that annoys you." My answer: the grammar police.

Here's some of the other things that annoy you:

Joleen: "When they feel the need to hop on your posts and tell you that you’re wrong because you don’t have the same opinion as they do"

Greg: "Flame a business publicly without contacting the owner / manager to give them the opportunity to rectify the issue first"

Jill: "Give very vague information about something going on in their lives When people ask what's up they say I'll message you."

Shane: "Airbrush their profile pics."

Shelly: "Air their dirty laundry for all to see."

Kelly: "Use politics in a comment on a post that had nothing to do with politics."

Andrea: "Constantly post pics of every meal they eat! Or talk about how “blessed” they are. We should rename it BragBook"

A lot of you probably disagree with me on the grammar police. I get it. If you're (not your) having a debate with someone and they can't even use basic grammar, it's much easier to just mock their (not they're!) grammar than (then?) debate the merits of their argument.

I've even seen people get all worked up into a tizzy over grammar when people are just sending well wishes to others on social media. Meanwhile, I politely scroll past while thinking- that person can't even use normal, correct pronouns but they want to lecture people about the English language?

One of my colleagues in the radio/digital media business has a great line added to her automatic signature block on her emails: "Excuse typos; fat fingers and Siri sometimes make up words."

That's great. It is electronic communication after all, and *schiff* happens.

Look, it's one thing if you're publishing a formal document, but if you're just simply communicating back and forth (especially on one of these increasingly lame social media sites), do people really need to get that sensitive?

I probably have some grammatical errors in this post, but I still have another story to write. Hitting the publish button. Moving on.