So 'Playstation Network' is now officially 'PSN'...

I finally got around to installing the latest system update, but I couldn't help noticing that one of the changes in this update was that the Playstation Network is now changed to read as 'PSN' on the system.

I just want to take a moment to reflect on how odd that is.

Sure, we call it PSN, especially when we write or type it out.  And I get that people like short, catchy terms to describe stuff.  But does it really need to be simplified everywhere now?

Some poor fool is probably gonna come along and get a PS4 one day and be all like, "PSN?  What's PSN?  Aw $%@#!, you mean to tell me there's a new Playstation system coming out already?" Lol.  Not only that, it just seemed...  Idk, a little more professional to explain what those three letters stand for on the system.

It kind of reminds me of how Mountain Dew changed their logo to read "Mt. Dew".  I am shocked that people still read it as "mountain" when they say the name aloud, so I guess not all hope is lost.  I just dread the day when some kid can't explain what PSN stands for.  If someone asks they'll say, "It's... You know, that online thing for the Pee-Ess-Four.  It lets you play games with people if you pay for it every month.  And you get free games with it.  That thing."

Anyone else sharing in my thoughts?  XD

Wait, so what happened to SEN? They dropped that as well?Articuno76

No idea why they would change it, but it makes no difference really.

Lol. Rofl. LMAO. :P Gotta abbreviate everything nowadays xD. 

I apologize for bumping this thread just to respond... Anyway, I read it as Mountain Dew because that's what I've always called it, but I can see younger people calling it "Mount" Dew, like the literal abbreviation "Mt."

I guess it doesn't really matter, but that's just an example I always come back to.

On a similar not, another thing that bugs me for some reason is... Not so much an abbreviation as it is a shortening of a word: "thru". Usually you'll see it on drive-thrus and thruways on the highway. I guess that one bugs me so much because I was always taught to spell the word "through".

I swear, I can see why the English must cringe when we Americans talk and spell stuff.

I thought something was different about that, i was like "hmmm, have you changed or did you always look like that O.o"