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AP Stylebook adds 42 new guidelines for social media

Posted by on 03 June 2010
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ROTFL, G2G and POS are officially part of the updated AP Stylebook. CNN and Mashable report that the venerable resource for journalists (and those who just like to be annoyingly correct all the time) has added 42 new guidelines for social media communication. From the article, "among the more interesting changes -- at least from a grammar and style standpoint -- are separating out "smart phone" as two words, hyphenating "e-reader," and allowing fan, friend and follow to be used both as nouns and verbs."

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