Our Love/Hate Relationship With Texting

Everyone's doing it. Spelling does count, and there are hundreds of abbreviations. There are common ones like LOL (laughing my ass off), or TTYL (talk to you later). The stupid ones like ROFLMAO really annoy me. Is anyone really rolling on the floor laughing their ass off?? I mean really. How about *$ (Starbucks) or TAP (take a pill) or WDT (who does that)?

Top 50 Most Popular Text Terms:

2moro - Tomorrow

2nite - Tonight

BRB - Be Right Back

BTW - By The Way

B4N - Bye For Now

BCNU - Be Seeing You

BFF - Best Friends Forever

CYA - Cover Your Ass -or- See Ya

DBEYR - Don't Believe Everything You Read

DILLIGAS - Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**

FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation

FWIW - For What It's Worth

GR8 - Great

ILY - I Love You

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion

IRL - In Real Life

ISO - In Search Of

J/K - Just Kidding

L8R - Later

LMAO - Laughing My Ass Off

LOL - Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Love

LYLAS - Love You Like A Sister

MHOTY - My Hat's Off To You

NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard

NP - No Problem -or- Nosy Parents

NUB - New person to a site or game

OIC - Oh, I See

OMG - Oh My God

OT - Off Topic

POV - Point Of View

RBTL - Read Between The Lines

ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

RT - Real Time

THX or TX or THKS - Thanks

SH - Sh** Happens
SITD - Still In The Dark
SOL - Sh** Out of Luck
STBY - Sucks To Be You
SWAK - Sealed (or Sent) With A Kiss
TFH - Thread From Hell
RTM or RTFM - Read The Manual -or- Read The F***ing Manual
TLC - Tender Loving Care
TMI - Too Much Information
TTYL - Talk To You Later -or- Type To You Later
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
VBG - Very Big Grin
WEG - Wicked Evil Grin
WTF - What The F***
WYWH - Wish You Were Here
XOXO - Hugs and Kisses

Have you ever used most of those? I haven't, and I text everyday. I'm sure your teenage son or daughter uses dozens more abbreviations that you have no clue about, and that's the whole point. There's even PBB which incase you didn't know means parents behind back!! Text messaging has become more prominent than actually talking to the person you're trying to communicate with. Weighing both sides of our relationship with texting.....

Haters say:

1. The frustration of sarcasm, humor and intent getting left in the black hole of text interpretation.

2. If you aren't up on your text abbreviations, you sometimes feel like a moron.

3. Spelling.....don't sound like a dumbass by forgetting to check your spelling

4. Being misunderstood, or misunderstanding the content of the text can cause textguments, and lead to an actual phone call to explain what you were trying to say in the first place.

5. The dreaded "I never got your text" which sometimes happens when you get a phone call while you're typing a text and it goes to drafts instead of being sent and you think the recipient is being a jerk by not responding!

6. It's addicting

Lovers say:

1. What a savior when you don't want to actually talk to the person you have to communicate with.

2. Waiting room at the doctor's office, at work, or anywhere else that's a no cell phones allowed zone.

3. Easier to communicate with your chatty friend when you only have a minute to let her know what time you're meeting her.

4. Sends a lighter message than a actual phone call (works well for dating)

5. Sextexting has evolved into the newest form of cyber sex.

6. It's addicting

Whichever side you're on, I wonder how the next generation will learn to socially interact. At any bar mitzvah today, 13 year olds are texting to the kids sitting across the room, rather than walking over to actually talk to them!!

Better yet are we going to have to go to text rehab for those that truly can't pull themselves away from their cell phones? Hello my name is Lizzie and I'm a textaholic! (hi Lizzie)

I'll b waiting 4 ur text 2 tell me if ur a luvr or a h8r....