Screaming at Strangers

DON’T TYPE IN ALL CAPS!  (Unless something super exciting just happened.)  It’s considered screaming, and is not appropriate.  Also, it's hard on the eyes.  When you type in all caps, that automatically tells me that I don't really want to read what you have to say.  If you can't be considerate enough to try to get your point across in a rational manner, especially on message boards or where you're talking to people who don't know you, I probably don't want to talk to you.  All caps comes across as rude, needy, high-maintanence and, sometimes, unintelligent (when it's all one block of huge text with no punctuation). Who wants to talk to someone like that?  Do yourself, and everyone else a favor, and save the all-caps for situations where screaming is OK in real life.  (Like, “HELP!  I’M ON FIRE!!”)  

But, you know, just as a practical matter... if you are on fire, you should probably go ahead and call 911, rather than posting it on Facebook.