Sounds like a perfect communication method for more and more people in this country, when you think about it.
I Know what you mean. I had to do a private reply to a Freeper to find out what “LOL” means that he responded to a post of mine with. He responded back with “ROLMAO”.
No respect for us baby boomers.
Correct.
My phone plan gives me unlimited text, unlimited data and 300 minutes of talk per month for $25. Even if you talk for 5 seconds they charge you for a minute. So when a person in another department needs something done they text me. When I want to let my wife know I'm working overtime I text her with a message already preloaded into the phone. If I wasted a phone call on all of the little, repetitive tasks that I can text or be texted instead I'd burn through my minutes in the first week. So I may not be able to write or speak coherently but I have a pretty good grasp of economics. Those of you with wonderful vocabularies who drone on and on in high dollar talk plans made higher because you want to play Angry Birds when you aren't waxing poetic? I don't know.
Not always. I work I a busy hospital where I need to contact colleagues all day long. Choice one is to page them, then sit at the phone for 5 minutes while I wait for a call back. Choice 2 is to call their cell. About 80% of the time they will be with a payment and unable to answer. By the time they listen to voicemail and call me back, I will be with a patient and unable to respond. Choice 3 is to send a text message they can look at and reply in a similar fashion at the first convenient moment. Guess which method of communication gets used where I work?
BTW none of my colleagues are stunted or incapable of writing
I have problems with texting but I can't agree with that. Texting involves typing and grammar. If texting didn't exist, people would be using the phone. If anything, texting is a return to the fading world of writing letters. I work with kids, and while I argue about texting, I certainly don't see their writing skills as suffering for it.
It's the content I find objectionable. Just casually saying those who text are incapable of writing simply doesn't make sense to me. I mean, they're writing.