Life Spinning Out of Control

Let me start off by saying that I am an English teacher. It is my job to know some grammar things. How is it that I missed the memo that said, "you no longer need the second space after a period"? Seriously, I found out about this today on another blog and I am not happy about it. There seems to be an internet conspiricy against the extra space too because when I tried it out on Facebook, they took out the extra spaces. Took them right out, like I was wrong, and it has been doing it all along without my concent or knowledge. Anger. I'm pretty sure this site does it too, but I'm too busy focusing on not rocking in a corner in the fetal position sucking on my thumb to try an experiment.

Why does Facebook or any website decide that the two space rule is the one it is going to enforce? If the internets are going to start enforcing grammar, why this rule that not every style guide agrees upon (one space for MLA, but two for APA)? Why doesn't Facebook start spell checking, or doing the automatic capitalization of the first word of the sentence or the word I, for that matter? No, we will get rid of the extra space, that is really bugging us. Meanwhile the next sentence doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot because it doesn't start with a capital letter. Facebook is fine with that, but not the extra space. Anger. Despair.

The thing that gets me is, everyone seemed to know about it but me. Was it like, "hey let's change the rules of grammar, but not tell Mike about it." then everyone can laugh at me? Seriously, who does this? I think there is some little lazy grammar geek that decided that they were too busy to type an extra space.

Don't give me that stupid typerwriter-has-the-same-space-size-and-computers-can-distinguish-and-adjust-and-make-letters-smaller-if-needed crap. Why did it need changed if it was working so well? Stupid lazy grammar geeks, that's who. I'm just angry. I should have went to teach math.

Update: Apparently Blogger has a crusade against paragraphs. I have spent the last 10 minutes trying to fix it so there is some space, or indentation for each paragraph. Nope, one jumbled mess. I hate the internets.