Lewis, quit using Twitter you fool!

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

My opinion of social media is coloured by the fact that I work at a university and the standard of written communication displayed by students has been declining fast over the last few years. Most of our students couldn't put a coherent sentence down on paper to save their lives. Punctuation and grammar are things of the past and almost every email they send is written as if it is a Twitter post. In an email to a university it is not acceptable to use "u" and "r" as replacements for "you" and "are" respectively. We constantly have to quash rumors spread on Facebook that an ignorant student has posted. The students will pay more attention to an uncredited post on Facebook than they will to an official communication from the Faculty. That is why I think that Facebook and Twitter have made the world a less intelligent place.

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The breakdown in the quality of spelling and grammar isn't down to 'social media'. Its like telegram English in that it comes from words having to be shortened to cut the number of letters used in a text message as traditionally people had been billed per text sent. This is something that happened 150 years ago and its happening again.

As for sites like Facebook and Twitter I think you need to use them to comment on them. They differ from each other tremendously but as both you and Lewis have found out you need to be very careful as news spreads very widely very quickly and if the information is inaccurate or misleading this can be a problem.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Lewis does have a good relationship with Haug however

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And with Nico, too.

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Originally Posted by F1boat

And with Nico, too.

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At the moment, yes.

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Originally Posted by henners88

You're entitled to your opinion but I think its condemning something you don't fully understand. Facebook is an important tool in my life to staying in touch with friends and family. I've met up with people I haven't seen for 15 years after finding them again on Facebook. You don't have to write a silly statement/post to be accepted and its not compulsory. Twitter is also useful if you use it in the correct way. I follow many of the F1 journalists, teams etc and much of the news is spread through such a medium.

The use of poor language and grammar has been around since long before Facebook and Twitter and I seem to remember text messenging being criticized in the late 90's for similar reasons. I'm sure you don't own a mobile phone and text people but its a valid example. I get the impression you are a lot older than me too so perhaps the generation gap appears between you and people of mine and Lewis's age. Saying that my parents are in their 60's and both own iPhones with social media accounts. :)

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To put things into perspective, I'm 38 years old, I have a degree in IT, I work at a university and, yes, I own a mobile phone. I do use SMS but I use full punctuation and grammar when I do so because I don't feel that butchering the English language for the sake of expediency is warranted. I'm a fairly private person and have no interest in my life being on display on the internet and therefore have little use for social media.

I will admit that social media isn't all bad and can be of benefit but I worry that it's become so important in so many people's lives that they can't do without it. My cousin announced his divorce on Facebook for god's sake! His own father found out about it on the internet rather than being told in person. That's just wrong.

To get things back on topic, Hamilton seems to value his social standing too much in my opinion. Should he care whether one of his competitors 'follows' his Twitter feed? Absolutely not. It's irrelevant to his performance and if I was his employer I'd be concerned that his attention isn't in the right place.

Good luck to Haug, Brawn & co

€15m on this nonsense.

GloomyDay stop using the Motorsport Forum you fool!
Every post I see from you on here are just trying to wind people up!
If you cant write anything useful then dont post at all.

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

To put things into perspective, I'm 38 years old, I have a degree in IT, I work at a university and, yes, I own a mobile phone. I do use SMS but I use full punctuation and grammar when I do so because I don't feel that butchering the English language for the sake of expediency is warranted. I'm a fairly private person and have no interest in my life being on display on the internet and therefore have little use for social media.

I will admit that social media isn't all bad and can be of benefit but I worry that it's become so important in so many people's lives that they can't do without it. My cousin announced his divorce on Facebook for god's sake! His own father found out about it on the internet rather than being told in person. That's just wrong.

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Views that I can relate to. I really have far too many things in my life to do rather than waste time on facebook or twitter (twitter being the more dumber of those two)

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Originally Posted by Hawkmoon

I can't fathom why any grown man would care in the slightest whether any other grown man "likes" him. That is indeed the domain of young girls.

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Yep.
Actually, the more I think about this, the more pathetic this seems from Lewis. I mean really, making a fuss about someone unfollowing you on twitter. Just no words for how pathetic that is.

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Originally Posted by henners88

It was a silly comment I agree, but if he is behaving like an 11 year old girl throwing a tantrum, its best not to give them the attention they crave in my experience.

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Well, in this case we are dealing with an adult male. He should be ridiculed for this stupidity.

Lewis is the nicest guy around he will do anything and everything for his fans. I remember watching his brothers first racing weekend at Brands Lewis was bombarded with questions about F1 and he said this is not my weekend its my brothers. He wouldnt answer anything unless it was about his brother.
Every year at Goodwood he will sign so many autographs it will get to a point that the organisers will tell him he has to hurry up and move on but he wont till every last autograph is signed!

I will always support and respect Lewis in every desicion he will make. It makes me so angry when you see fellow British people ripping it into him we should support our top talent and be 100% proud!

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Originally Posted by Coulthard Fan

I will always support and respect Lewis in every desicion he will make. It makes me so angry when you see fellow British people ripping it into him we should support our top talent and be 100% proud!

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LOL.

its very funny how Lewis just said that one word and he is like a Devil.. that is what we were talking about. when Lewis does something everyone goes haywire.. he is a human just like anyone els there are some people here who can be even worse.. live with it and let him do mistakes as anyone else and that doesn't have to do anything with his permanence and Mercedes want to win and he is an answer to that.. just live with it and stop hating..