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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one.

Comments

[twelfthspark]

lolol

[concern]

See, looking at that linguistically, it would mean "laughing out loud out loud" based on the standard jargon of LOL meaning "laughing out loud" in the first place. How do you laugh out loud out loud?

There's no rhyme or reason to adding extra letters when I already have a descriptor for the volume of your laughter!

[twelfthspark]

It makes it louder. Obviously~.

[the linguistically-nonsensical tilde may just be there to annoy her further]

[concern]

( oh god that's annoying, yeah )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde

I've attached a link. Wikipedia may not be acceptable as a scholarly source, but I think it will do to teach you how to correctly use a tilde.

[twelfthspark]

It's correct on the internet~

[concern]

There should be a more comprehensive resource on the grammatical and linguistic rules the Internet bends and breaks regularly.

[twelfthspark]

There probably is. Google it. Or ask your grandkids.

[concern]

I'm not nearly of the age to have a grandchild. The absolute oldest a child of my own could possibly be is 12, and even then they'd most certainly be expecting -- I doubt a fetus could explain social media to me.

But I did buy a book and it's on its way, so hopefully that will be more of a help.

[twelfthspark]

[well that escalated quickly]

If your twelve-year-old was pregnant you'd have bigger problems than figuring out Facebook.

[concern]

It was merely an example to prove you wrong.

[twelfthspark]

It proved something, all right.