7 Reasons to Leave Your All Caps Button Alone – And What to Do Instead

I love dialog. It’s great hearing and reading other people’s opinions. Even when they disagree with me. Because good communication matters to me, I want to enhance all of our dialog – especially online – with a friendly word of advice to a particular group of people. I call them All Caps Communicators.

August 26, 2016

by Karl Vaters

I love dialog. It’s great hearing and reading other people’s opinions. Even when they disagree with me.

Because good communication matters to me, I want to enhance all of our dialog – especially online – with a friendly word of advice to a particular group of people.

I call them All Caps Communicators. You know who they are. You may even be one of them. These are the folks who love the CAPS LOCK button on their keyboard.

If you are an All Caps Communicator, I want to address you on behalf of everyone who has attempted to read your blog, your Facebook post or your comment, by giving you one word of friendly advice.

Stop. Please. (I guess that’s two words).

Author

Karl Vaters

Karl produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.
He's the author of five books on church leadership, including his newest, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next. His other books include The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials.
Karl also hosts a bi-weekly podcast,The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry, featuring in-depth interviews about topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.
Karl has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience. He and his wife, Shelley have three children and two grandkids.

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