lol. just because someone at some point decided to consider it as shouting doesn't mean that it is, and just because someone else perpetuated it doesn't make it so either. text is text. i don't even know what an "interwebz" is and don't care. i don't use a blackberry, and i don't text on my phone. i was raised on DOS, TELETYPES, and TTY machines. i still fix DOS based machines, and i still program in DOS. yup, i'm a genuine antique too. because everyone has different perceptions of the world it is absurd to automatically try and assign emotions to simple text. emotions are what you convey by the words you use and how you use them. not whether they are capitalized. besides, there are plenty of very nice explicatives that convey your emotions very well no matter what case they are typed in...lol :P