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I see it all the time on Facebook, for goodness' sake- if you are at a keyboard, USE YOUR WORDS! The odd LOL or whatever is fine, but whole sentences? No. Just saw this gem on my facebook wall, from a girl i went to school with:
"NE1 got a sleepin bag i cud borro for nxt wk? Wud need 2 pik it up 2nite."
Now im seriously questioning why she is on my friends list 
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i dont text like that
there are the occasional misspelled words tho ;P
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I have to admit i stopped texting like that when i hit 21 lol.
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i would say it was a kid thing, but ive seen adults typing like that.
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Are you sure they didn't post it from their phone?
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Yeah, i know way too many adults who type like that, it drives me nuts.
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Chogram posted:
Are you sure they didn't post it from their phone?
Yeah, because FB lets you know when someone has updated from their phone.
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_sooz_ posted:
"NE1 got a sleepin bag i cud borro for nxt wk? Wud need 2 pik it up 2nite."
I believe typing like this is grounds for thumb removal. See how they do with out them.
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_sooz_ posted:
Chogram posted:
Are you sure they didn't post it from their phone?
Yeah, because FB lets you know when someone has updated from their phone.
Not always.
If I post from the browser on my droid it is no different than posting from my house.
You can also go to m.facebook.com from your desktop and it will say "Posted from mobile"
Or go http://postedvia.com/ here and post from your toaster 
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I h8 tht 2.
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I don't understand why people text speak at all. Maybe I'm just too formal...
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its sometimes easier for people to text rather then speak. that or it's a trap.
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deadcactus posted:
I don't understand why people text speak at all. Maybe I'm just too formal...
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I don't do this and no one I know types like that at any time. We use our words.
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I refuse to text speak. I tend to think less of people that do. Can't help it.
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my next 1000 posts will be text-speak
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Sarena_WE posted:
I refuse to text speak. I tend to think less of people that do. Can't help it.
I've been cussing out teenagers since I played AC, telling them that "You" was only 3 letters long, and just as easy as typing U.
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My wife is a High School English teacher.
This "text-speak" is becoming a problem that reaches beyond social media or text messaging.
Every time she assigns writing, she gets papers that contain this De-Evolution of language.
It's bad enough at this point that she even gets hand-written drafts that contain text-speak.
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Sarena_WE posted:
I refuse to text speak. I tend to think less of people that do. Can't help it.
Ditto. Even on my phone I won't do it. It drives me insane. That being said, depending on the phone and how they have things set up, it won't always tell you when someone is updating facebook from their phone.
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n3w trolol strgy so phun
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I don't get text speak. But then again, I don't send a thousand texts a minute.
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Sgian_Dubh posted:
My wife is a High School English teacher.
This "text-speak" is becoming a problem that reaches beyond social media or text messaging.
Every time she assigns writing, she gets papers that contain this De-Evolution of language.
It's bad enough at this point that she even gets hand-written drafts that contain text-speak.
Please tell me she fails them.
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I've removed people (or at least blocked them from my newsfeed) for posting like that. It drives me batty.
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Anebriated posted:
n3w trolol strgy so phun
I image this is what a text from F_D looks like.
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