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parislemon:

I’ve always hated the use of the word “exclusive” in titles. From what I see, 99% of the time the usage boils down to one of three things:

1) The author sucks at writing actual titles.

2) The author wants their story to appear much more important than it actually is. (“It says ‘exclusive’ so it must be important!”)

3) The author is an asshat who wants to make themselves appear more important that they actually are.

And then there’s the “exclusive” that Mashable published today. A new low. While running an infographic that no one else is likely to run is technically an “exclusive”, so is, say, posting a picture of your slap bracelet collection. The usage of the term in this headline is more along the lines of “sad”.

If your story is filled with good, exclusive information, it should speak for itself. Or maybe you shouldn’t be a writer. 

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B-schools and MBAs have been on my mind a lot lately. I wanted to see what Google would throw up if I searched for the terms “stammering mba” (without the quotes). The top results were forums where people who stammer asking if it will prove a hinderance in “clearing” the MBA. Most of the for questions seemed to be from Indians. The result that made me cringe the most was: 

Can ppl vid stammering prob can do mba..?? do company hire them …

The response that showed through on the Google search page was: u cn do it bt companies vl hire u only for operations…dont go fr marketing

Ah…well, if anything prevents a stammerer from being successful it is typing “vid” when one means “with” or “vl” when one means “will”. That’s not acceptable even on Twitter