Can we please stop using early 2000s "txtspeak" to signal text conversations?
Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect?
Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect?
Yes. I still receive messages from many people (who I know have smartphones) with "u", "ur", and so on.
Edit: and actually, with autocorrect people (all ages) are made lazy enough to leave the wrong word if the autocorrect misfires. Leaving the reader to guess the correct word altogether.
Additionally it's also a good indicator of some one who uses Twitter way to much and has either polluted their autocorrect with this shorthand or have way too much confidence in their grammar and spelling skills and just hove autocorrect off.