I am an exclamation mark junkie! Is this a bad thing??

Haha! I don't find it annoying at all unless there is multiple of them. Like this!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to have a huge obsession with exclamation marks where I would end every sentence with "..!!" in italics. People incessantly told me how frustrating it was so I broke the habit on my own.

Not necessarily. THat makes your style of writing and it's ok too. Personally punctuation signs either in abundance or scarce don't really bother me one way or another. I guess it might be annoying for some people, but personally I pay more attention to the content, what is being written, rather than how it is emphasized. Come to think of it I tend to be a smillie junkie LOL

I am just like you. i do use exclamation marks a lot. i wanna put an emphasis on most replies i do. it does not mean i am angry. sometimes, i just mean that i am excited, happy and glad. i don't have anything against people who use exclamation marks often, too. i do understand their side.

i also tend to use a bit more punctuation than necessary to point out my points i realize that it may be a bit annoying; i'd never tolerate it if i was reading a book or the newspaper - but this is pretty informal - and i tend to type very much like i would write a letter...just try to get things going, without a lot of drawn-out, properly written sentences and paragraphs.

It doesn't matter as nobody pay attention to exclamation marks.I usually read only the matter and not grammer.It certainly doesnt create any nuisance.

I dont find it annoying! That's the way you write so it's ok! I'm sorry if I write so short message because you got a lot opinions already! Have a good day!

I don't think its a bad thing, its just another way for you to get your point across. I don't find it annoying when people do that.

You're an exlamation point junkie? Who knew? Does this lessen or take from the quality of your writing? Isn't there something worse? What if you were a question mark junkie?

I am very glad to find that so few people are annoyed with it, because sometimes I look at something I've written where every sentence in the entire paragraph has an exclamation point at the end and I feel like a bubbly grinning idiot. Then I have to sit there trying to decide which sentence I feel the least enthusiastic about so I can remove at least one. It's like cutting out my tongue or my heart or something!

I do this one all the time. I also have a habit of putting 'eh!' at the end of something a lot of the time. It doesn't bother me at all though if I see a lot of exclamation marks in a response or a discussion. Ellie :D

Oh my, I didn't realize that I'm an exclamation junkie too! I guess when a person is in mylot, it feels like we are conversing instead of just typing and exclamation marks help convey how our tone of voice would be. Let's just say we are a lively, animated, passionate group and use this punctuation mark to get our thoughts heard! Heres's to !!!!!!.

I think this is a matter of personaility. Your personaility shows in your writing style. I like to use exclamation marks a lot also. I don't think it's annoying as a reader to see others use them I think it actually makes me more interested in the writing.

Exclamation marks show that you enjoy writing the repsonse or comment .... its shows your enthusiasm ... keep it up!

I used to be an exclamation mark junky just like yourself. Not I am going in the opposite direction and am often very hesitant to put the on. Thanks for reading and good luck.

Exclamation points are fine here on Mylot and they don't bother me at all. The only thing they are not good for are writing in articles. I write for a living and my main income right now comes from writing articles online. I never did use exclamation points in my articles so it was never a habit I had to break. However, some people have been known to do it in articles and it is really a no-no. It's just not good writing to use even one exclamation point when writing professionally. So I would say don't worry about it here on Mylot but don't do it if you write articles. Now I also write fiction and some exclamation points are good in fiction to show excitement or to really emphasis a point. So no worries here on Mylot. :)