Text Speak I Can Get On Board With

Hat tip to Liz for the following "Text Speak for Seniors":
ATD: At The Doctor's
BFF: Best Friend Farted
BTW: Bring The Wheelchair
BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth
CBM: Covered By Medicare
CUATSC: See You At The Senior Center
DWI: Driving While Incontinent
FWBB: Friend With Beta Blockers
FWIW: Forgot Where I Was
FYI: Found Your Insulin
GGPBL: Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low!
GHA: Got Heartburn Again
IMHO: Is My Hearing-Aid On?
LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out
LOL: Living On Lipitor
LWO: Lawrence Welk's On
OMMR: On My Massage Recliner
OMSG: Oh My! Sorry, Gas.
ROFL... CGU: Rolling On The Floor Laughing... And Can't Get Up
SGGP: Sorry, Gotta Go Poop
TTYL: Talk To You Louder
WAITT: Who Am I Talking To?
WTP: Where's The Prunes?
WWNO: Walker Wheels Need Oil
LMGA: Lost My Glasses Again
GGLKI: Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking In

Please Make "Text Speak" STOP!

I don't send or receive text messages.  I don't know how.  I don't use my cell phone hardly at all.  When Joe was here last summer, he was showing me his iPhone.  It does everything but make toast.  He took one look at my phone and quipped, "I think I saw that in the Smithsonian".  

I can understand the need to abbreviate words when texting, even when emailing.  But I am so, so, SO sick of seeing Text Speak in Facebook statuses and comments. I admit that I use abbreviations as well, but not a lot.  However, some of it has been getting on my nerves, especially when the text speak goes on and on within a sentence. Or two. 

The comment I saw that finally pushed me over the edge was:  "Thank u 4 mine.  I was terrible and didn't send ne out this yr. I hope u had a good xmas".  OK first off, I'm sitting there, puzzling over 'ne'.  It finally occurred to me that it's an abbreviation for 'any'.  She didn't send N E cards out.  But this is what kills me:  The person went to the trouble of typing out the entire word 'terrible', but felt the need to abbreviate a 3 letter word into 2 letters????  'Thank' is typed out but 'you' has to be cut down to one letter?  Who makes these arbitrary decisions on what to abbreviate?

Some of my younger friends will respond to me 'ty' for Thank You, and 'yw' for You're Welcome.  That annoys the ever loving crap out of me.  Does it really take THAT much extra effort to type out the entire words?   I mean srsly, WTF?   ;o)