There is this guy at school...

[99bottles]

I feel like you're trying to get us to proofread/edit your latest manuscript word by word. That's not an appropriate use of the forum. You already have far more threads open than any other user. This is supposed to be your manuscript, not ours. I think we said this about your last book too. It's unfair to use volunteers' time to proofread/edit a book (for free) that you're planning to market commercially.

I strongly suggest you employ the services of a professional editor.

I'm just a little confused as to how to correctly use this and that.

Edit: I apologize. I went a little too far this time. I don't intend to have you edit my manuscripts for me. I just happened to come across that (or this -- lol) meme I showed you in the original post of this thread, and it opened a new can of worms, because I have used the 'this/that + noun' construction countless times, and I have just realized that I've been probably been doing it wrong all this time, so I freaked out. So I'm trying to figure out all the differences between this and that, so that I can solve this (or that -- lol) problem once and for all.
I'll search elsewhere and try not to bother you for a few days (so that you can have a break from the likes of me ). Please, try not to hit me with any banhammer in the meantime (puppy eyes).

 

[Tarheel]

It can be hard to know which one to use without context.

If you send me an email I'll give you the information you need to connect by means of Facebook and then Messenger.

 

[Tdol]

We can't see the guy, so we don't know any physical distance at the time of the photo. However, he is near her in the sense that she wants to talk about him. The concept of distance is not always based on physical space- there are social, class, etc, distances.