we all know my grammar sucks.

[chrislognshot]

but why does facebook and other social media make type in facebook lightroom or other words in caps when not start of sentence

[Painthappy]

Got me... I don't use facebook. I see that more and more though, where the first letter is capitalized and if you hit space twice, the period automatically shows up. It's like a car with brake assist on a hill. You no longer have to think about it.

Personally I don't like it. As someone who's done developing in the past, I get it, but I wouldn't allow it. Let people make mistakes so they can learn from it. Side note: I actually had to turn auto correct off on my phone since it was bothering me. I wasn't trying to type "duck"

[JeeperCreeper]

That's the only assist I like in my Jeep, the hillstart assist. Especially since I end up sitting on a hill waiting for the light at the end of my street every time. It just holds the brakes until it detects that I'm moving forward.

[bored383]

I turned off the hill start assist on my car within a week of getting it. It made it almost impossible to smoothly start off from a stop because it was lagging behind me letting out the clutch such that I was fighting the brakes to go forward. the electronic nannies just get in the way

[Greaterthenjake]

We have login issues with mobile apps at my company they are case sensitive. So auto caps causes all sorts of issues when user names are all lowercase.

[Axel]

I, too, am becoming more and more annoyed by autocorrect and predictive text. Let a man live his life

[Olsson]

The man who invented autocorrect should burn in hello.

[martix_agent]

Are you using a phone or a keyboard when this capitalization issue occurs?

I can't type, so the little red lines under words spelled wrong is a life-saver for me. I love it!

[JeeperCreeper]

I've been noticing that autocorrect is not only not correcting things lately, but it completely ruins anything I type. Ai powered junk. It will not fix misspelled words, or it will replace perfectly spelled words for no reason. I had to turn it all off. It's the same reason I still drive a manual transmission, computers just don't know what I want.

Facebook and even Google are even worse, AI is monitoring everything as you type it out. We are giving them access to more information than you may realize, even just using Googles "G-board" to type things out. You ever wonder why you text a friend about "this cool new item you want to buy" and then you see more advertisements for that item? Google listens to what you say as well. Maybe not recording everything you say, but definitely listening for key words to generate more ads to shove in your face. The only way to escape all of it is to go off grid and never be around electronics again, but who's doing that?

[Carp]

This is sooo true. I searched for a cat litter and the next thing I know.... I'm getting Yahoo ads for.... "Does your house smell like cat pee? Buy this product..." No joke! . ..wtf!

[chrislognshot]

Don’t use Facebook. Not as a pose or temporarily. Quit it forever. Seriously. It’s bad for you. It’s bad for everyone. It erodes critical thinking, your patience, and your ability to define facts. It’s a mother effn plague on humanity.

okay i use for my find out what my music band doing. but mainly use to for photography. since i have page photography page i setup for parents and kids can see photo i took from sports. i also use to keep in touch with family i do not see or have not seen in ages. since relative that does my taxes is part of my family. did not see much growing up but now i get to talk back and forth with family i hardly got to see even thou i live about 1hr 1/2 away. same for pops side who live up north talk to. was not for facebook would never be photographer i am today. also would not meet people from local ren fair or near by or around the world. i use it as learning tool and use to teach people about camera stuff and ren fair. also not sure why, but ask me to use cap on F for facebook again. also was not first word of this sentence again.

[chrislognshot]

its not miss spelling of words it type word facebook in this sentence. its tell me in that sentences facebook needs to have capital F. just like in that sentence. it's weird

[JeeperCreeper]

Well Facebook is a pronoun, so it should be capitalized

[cellophane]

Facebook is a proper noun (the name of the company / website) and should be capitalized because of that. Just like Chris, Planet Eclipse, or Egypt. The exception to that is if the name of the brand / person / product does not begin with a capitalized letter such as iPhone or names in some other languages like Dutch & German e.g. Mies van der Rohe. In the iPhone case Apple has stylized the product name and not using a capitalized i is correct. And oddly using iPhone at the beginning of a sentence without a capitalized i is also correct.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/proper-nouns/

Pronouns are substitutions for a noun. He, She, It, We, They, etc.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/pronouns/

That said - English is a bastard language that is a mishmash of at least a dozen other languages over time, which is a big part of why the rules are so weird and often stupid.