PLN #9 Is This the Future of Punctuation!?

The article "Is This the Future of Punctuation!?" by Henry Hitchings matters to me because it is important that people realize that punctuation can be effective and how we use it is crucial. A very long time ago punctuation didn't exist. In the 15th and 16th century, punctuation came about and was used regularly. As Hitchings says, "punctuation is being renounced" and its true. I don't use much of it, I try, but when I do, I overuse it. Some people probably just give up because their teacher keeps telling them that they have too many commas in one sentence, so they don't use it anymore. Punctuation can be confusing and I think that is what is effecting the future of it. Many punctuation marks have become popular like the dash and hyphen but others have drifted away like the colon and apostrophe. This makes me wonder why some are increasing in use and some are decreasing. The future of punctuation is a mystery. Tons of punctuations marks are created and tons die off. No matter what, people like to not use punctuation. Most people think it isn't necessary, I think it is effective. Some day the whole idea might even be extinct.