Editing Typographical error (section)

===Social media===
In computer forums, sometimes "^H" (a visual representation of the [[ASCII]] [[backspace]] character) was used to "[[epanorthosis|erase]]" intentional typos: "Be nice to this fool^H^H^H^Hgentleman, he's visiting from corporate HQ."<ref>[http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html Chapter 5. Hacker Writing Style] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906014019/http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html |date=2013-09-06 }}, The [[Jargon File]], version 4.4.7</ref>

In [[instant messaging]], users often send messages in haste and only afterward notice the typo. It is common practice to correct the typo by sending a subsequent message in which an [[asterisk]] (*) is placed before (or after) the correct word.<ref>{{cite book|last=Magnan|first=Sally Sieloff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbYbGsgJclgC&q=asterisk&pg=PA260|title=Mediating discourse online|publisher=[[John Benjamins Publishing Company]]|year=2008|isbn=978-90-272-0519-3|series=AILA Applied Linguistics Series|page=260}}</ref>