https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:33:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points/page/2#post-389098 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:01:34 +0000 Smurfette 389098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I can't help it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points/page/2#post-389091 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:58:25 +0000 Meridian 389091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Haha, interesting that it's only for Facebook! I need it for everything... get working on it, please!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points/page/2#post-389085 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:55:30 +0000 winniebee 389085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use it so much, it's probably annoying! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points/page/2#post-389081 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:55 +0000 mrbee 389081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetchic: Haha I did some Googling for us, and here's a plugin which strips extra exclamations, question marks and ellipses from Facebook posts:<br /> <a href="http://browsers.about.com/od/socialchat/p/remove-excessive-punctuation-chrome-extension.htm" rel="nofollow">http://browsers.about.com/od/socialchat/p/remove-excessive-punctuation-chrome-extension.htm</a></p> <p>It also replaces double spaces after a period with a single space! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389073 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:51:53 +0000 Meridian 389073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I'm almost always sober during my abuse of !!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389054 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:48:04 +0000 MrsSCB 389054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totally! Haha, I always tell DH his emails look so terse because he doesn't use any, but I know I use too many. I also review all the emails and texts I write and often take a couple out so it doesn't seem too over the top. I want to seem friendly, not psychotic! lol but it's really hard not to...without them my messages look so flat. Luckily my boss is a worse abuser than I am so I don't have to worry too much at work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389040 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:44:19 +0000 birdofafeather 389040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: i was on an ellipse kick a couple years ago. but i do still like them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389036 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:43:34 +0000 birdofafeather 389036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh yeah, sometimes i go back and delete one or two. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389033 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:42:53 +0000 Turd Ferguson 389033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really. I totally overuse ellipses though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389027 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:41:07 +0000 mrbee 389027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetchic: Haha my solution is to avoid drunken emailing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389022 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:37:47 +0000 NerdBee 389022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha! Yes, I pretty much have to edit out exclamation points in all my correspondence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389021 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:37:40 +0000 Meridian 389021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: puahaha, I'm sure you could develop a gmail plugin for that... you're techy like that, right?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389014 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:35:44 +0000 banana 389014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! Big time! Can't stop myself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389010 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:34:09 +0000 luckypenny 389010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am powerless over exclamation points and my life has become unmanageable!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389009 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:34:02 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 389009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes!!!! for some reason, I feel like ending a sentence with a period seems bitchy! and i always talk so excitable, that having a (!) at the end is just required.............! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-389001 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:32:39 +0000 mrbee 389001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetchic: Wish that Gmail had some sort of way to count exclamation points. Then it could give you warning messages when you hit send:</p> <p>"Your email has 40% more exclamation points than your average email! Are you sure you want to send this? Are you possibly drunk right now?" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388989 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:27:48 +0000 Bao 388989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Jingos!!!! Jingos? Jingos!!!! lol stupid commercial, but made me think of this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388987 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:27:38 +0000 Meridian 388987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Yes!! I always have to back and edit out some too! My last email to a colleague had 5 sentences, and 4 of them had !! so I had to go back and take some out... haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388984 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:25:16 +0000 MediaNaranja 388984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just sent our organization's newsletter to my boss so she could proof it before I send it out, and her response was "looks good, but maybe edit out some of the exclamation points?"</p> <p>So yeah, I guess I do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388981 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:25:01 +0000 Bao 388981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: hahaha yup too much of those too.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388980 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:24:28 +0000 Chastenet 388980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388973 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:22:24 +0000 dagret 388973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!!! And I also abuse ellipses... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388968 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:20:16 +0000 .twist. 388968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh yes. it's gotten to the point now, where I'm trying to stop and I've had people ( after reading texts, or emails) ask me if everything is ok because I don't seem happy or I seem annoyed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388961 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:18:51 +0000 Bao 388961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, and smileys and lol's, They really make a difference. "That's funny" "That's funny! :) lol" ....it's more fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388943 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:10:43 +0000 Mrsbells 388943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes I really do too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388936 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:09:29 +0000 MrsTiz 388936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just recently started using them more often, and I just wrote an e-mail, and went back and edited out FOUR of them because I looked crazy being so exclamatory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388933 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:07:43 +0000 immabeetoo 388933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! My husband pointed it out in an email I cc'ed him in on and now I'm conscious of it in emails and go back to edit. I'll use them with abandon on hellobee though.. !!!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388908 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:59:45 +0000 tororojo 388908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use too many exclamation points!!!</p> <p>For serious though, every time I write a work email I generally have to edit it and switch several exclamations to periods. One or two are okay, but I have the tendency to end every sentence with an exclamation point! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388900 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:58:22 +0000 Freckles 388900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like if i don't have an exclamation point, people will mistake my words as being angry or annoyed. </p> <p>I really hate overusing them, but sometimes it's just a necessary evil in the online world!</p> <p>Gah, i did it again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-abuse-and-overuse-exclamation-points#post-388889 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:56:12 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 388889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do! </p>