This is Steva Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Back in the Stone Age, people used to communicate with each other by making the air vibrate,

by bouncing light waves off of their faces and scrunching up their facial and body muscles.

It was called having a conversation in person. And it was terribly inefficient.

Now, we've taken out all of that nuance, the visual cues, the voice tone, and the effort.

We use text. And since text misses all those cues, it's easily misunderstood. Plus, the

conventions, such as they are, change. If you're over 25, you use text differently than a teenager.

And if you're over 40, ha, ha, ha, get a grip.

You probably think that good writing is sexy.

And to be fair, a few years ago, yes, in this wacky online world, punctuation, grammar,

and spelling were basically secondary sexual characteristics.

There's a reason that grammar girl is so popular. But now that semicolon makes you look a hold. People expect you to be

wearing flower print sundresses and smell like non-in-all. So here are some hints about how to text

well in the modern age. Use different rules for different contexts.

Writing is no longer just one thing, writing.

These days, writing changes according to the context.

You don't write a blog post the way you'd write an article, you don't write a LinkedIn

status update the way you'd write a blog post, and you don't write a text message the way

you'd write a status update.

In each place, how you write determines where you are in the social hierarchy.

Use the right style for the right audience, or risk being labeled a blar-hunkerer, which is slang

from a generation other than yours and probably means something unspeakably insulting.

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