#1: "alot"
This one is completely ridiculous! There is no such word as alot. It is two words: a lot.
#2: "Am"
There's been an increasing number of people using the word am in place of I'm. It should be noted that am ≠ I'm, making sentences such as "Am annoyed with you." sound horrifically deformed.
#3: Misusing and abusing the apostrophe
I honestly don't know why it's so hard for people to grasp the use of the apostrophe. It's used to signify missing letters and/or ownership/relation. For example, if you were to refer to my mother, you would say, "Scott's mother." See? Easy.
#4: Homophones
The confusion of your over you're has been getting on my nerves since I could spell. It is not that hard. Your implies ownership, e.g. your car; whereas you're is a contracted (i.e. shorter) form of you are. For example, "You're an elf."
N.B. "They're over there, reading their books."
#5: Punctuation crises
Firs off, there's the punctuation overload. What I mean by that is messages like this: gonna go,,, out now!!!!!!
Not only does it look hideous, but the overuse of the exclamation mark diminishes its effect. There should only be one comma used at a time; that is, there should never be two or more commas coming straight after each other. Also it bugs me when people use commas where there shouldn't be any. Example: I'm, shattered now! Can't wait to, get to bed!!!!
#6: The slaughter of the semicolon
While I don't claim to be an expert when it comes to semicolons, I do have some idea of where they are used. However they are not to be used to link two words together (e.g. "love;you"); nor are they to be used interchangeably with apostrophes (e.g "I;ve got a lot of work to do"). Please, don't slaughter the semicolon; if you can't use it, just don't use it at all.
#7: Alphabet explosion
You've all seen them: statuses on Facebook that look as though the alphabet just up and vomited all over them. A prime example: "ii cantttt believeee itt!!!" Honestly, the language works as it is; stop fucking it up with too many letters.
That seems to be the main ones covered, at least. Funnily enough, as I was writing this, I came across a picture on Facebook that said, "i loovee' you!" which fits right in to #7: Alphabet explosion and #3: Misusing and abusing the apostrophe. Not to mention the fact that the I isn't capitalised, but that's another story.
That's all, folks!
