do you bother using full spelling/punctuation in text communiation?

I would, for the simple reason that if I bother to write something, either on here or in a text to someone else, I want to make what I'm saying is clear and easy to understand.
Just for the sake of plain common courtesy, in other words.

You don't get charged per word or letter, nor are you constrained by character limits.

My parents spent time, money and effort sending me to school, so I'll try and use it most of the time.

My 83 yr old dad uses txt spk 2 msg his children and grandchildren.
He can get an entire conversation into one line.
It's so perfectly abbreviated, that sometimes I have to ring him to ask him what he means.:o

I feel stingy if I type '&' instead of 'and', but I almost always use proper spelling and punctuation in my texts.
And I confess to twitching if someone writes 'tanks' instead of 'thanks'.

I always use normal spelling and punctuation. To receive anything in textspeak is like nails down a blackboard for me. I have also received business communications and job applications using textspeak, which I hate and consider to be a huge red flag. I know I’m a bit of an old dinosaur and should be more accepting of the trend, but I also like a good, old fashioned letter through the post too. And I use a fountain pen!

Text speak does my head in, the amount of people using it on FB... Whenever I see it in a group I automatically think there's something wrong with that person.
The worst was when I asked something in a local group band got a reply in it... From my son's teacher.

Sofiztikated wrote: »

You don't get charged per word or letter, nor are you constrained by character limits.

My parents spent time, money and effort sending me to school, so I'll try and use it most of the time.

There is still a character limit on sms messages.
I use text speak from time to time, mainly because I'm too much of a scrooge to pay for 2 messages, when I can condense it into one with text speak.

As mentioned already though, the character limit probably isn't that much of an issue these days with the likes of whatsapp/vibr available, together with the fact that most people are probably on cellfone plans with unlimited data/texts etc. :cool:

I have one friend who uses text speak via whatsapp . I open it and have no idea what she is on about . I have to break it down and say it out loud . Then gr8 becomes great ! Is it not easier to just type great !