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Dear Mr. Madoff69, I believe that your analysis has flaws. It would be quite awkward on social media to use the a more formal way of addressing people. Twitter

Dear Mr. Madoff69, I believe that your analysis has flaws. It would be quite awkward on social media to use the a more formal way of addressing people. Twitter and other platforms have a "style" of conversation and trying to fit the square peg of formal writing into the round hole of internet conversation sounds stilted. I do not understand why you think corporations would decide to do that, no matter what their intentions are. I humbly await your response. Yours Truly, Mr. rPlayer P.S. I hope your Grandmother is doing well. Please send my regards. P.P.S. Please invest in my new cloud computing blockchain biotech startup where we sell NFTs.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
Dear Mr. rPlayer, Please update your signature to conform with the current standards, as outlined in the last month's circular. Best Regards, TeMPOraL -- TeMPOraL, Internet Compliance Officer (ICO) ACME LLC - Synergizing Creative Accounting ACME LLC, NaN NaN, Null Islands. The content of this message is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. Please do not print this message unless it is necessary. Every unprinted message helps the environment. Think of the trees!
- dgellow 6y ago
  It's even better with the small tree icon hosted by an external service, thus leaking some data when you open the email :)
ylyn 6y ago
They could have just left off the greeting.
simias 6y ago
I don't use twitter so I don't know what the etiquette over there but outside of emails I wouldn't normally expect any salutation in an internet message. So for me it's not so much that the salutation not formal enough, it's more that it's odd that it exists at all. But then again maybe usages differ in twitterworld.

TeMPOraL 6y ago

Dear Mr. rPlayer, Please update your signature to conform with the current standards, as outlined in the last month's circular. Best Regards, TeMPOraL -- TeMPOraL, Internet Compliance Officer (ICO) ACME LLC - Synergizing Creative Accounting ACME LLC, NaN NaN, Null Islands. The content of this message is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. Please do not print this message unless it is necessary. Every unprinted message helps the environment. Think of the trees!

dgellow 6y ago
It's even better with the small tree icon hosted by an external service, thus leaking some data when you open the email :)

ylyn 6y ago

They could have just left off the greeting.

simias 6y ago

I don't use twitter so I don't know what the etiquette over there but outside of emails I wouldn't normally expect any salutation in an internet message. So for me it's not so much that the salutation not formal enough, it's more that it's odd that it exists at all. But then again maybe usages differ in twitterworld.