I know I'm being really petty, but....

DiS sH*T iS oNe Uv Da DuMiSt TrEnDz EvA!!!!

Translation: "This shit is one of the dumbest trends ever."

Could you read that without getting a headache? Were you able to decipher this strange code? Do you often do things that are completely stupid and pointless? If you answered 'no' to one or more of these questions, then you are not alone. You are one of the thousands of people who are confused by the upper-case/lower-case invasion. For some strange reason, unbeknown to me, people feel the need to type in upper and lower case letters in the same word. Makes no sense to you? Yeah, me neither. Not only is it silly, but it seems like it would be a tad bit time-consuming, no? HaViNg To CoNsTaNtLy HoLd DoWn 'sHiFt' Or PrEsS 'cApS lOcK' seems a bit tedious. But this trend is just the first of many that I will write about with an interesting mixture of confusion, amusement, and pity. There have been several occasions when I looked at someone's Facebook page or Twitter account and found myself puzzled. It's not the slang that bothers me (although there should be a limit placed on how many words in the English language that can be acceptably butchered at one time) It's mostly just tHiS.