Ten years ago, the question, “how many people text?” would’ve rung validity’s bell. Today, it’s more like who doesn’t. If you’re a bystander in the texting explosion, I’m ok if you’re ok with your cellphone troglodyte status. According to a 2010 Pew Research Center report, adult texting ran amuck “over the past nine months from 65% of adults sending and receiving texts in September 2009 to 72% texting in May 2010.”
Truly, we are technologically OOC (out of control) and with those numbers, I suspect the grammatical errors produced by fumbled fingers have also climbed. Perfect in our imperfections, we all make mistakes, however, some more than others, I might add.
Given our newfound affinity for phonetic spelling and texting shorthand, the inclusion of a disclaimer I received via text is priceless: “This transmittal was sent from a handheld device. Please excuse any misspelled or abbreviated words, or other typographical errors.” Shouldn’t every cellphone come prepackaged with this?
Source: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1716/adults-cell-phones-text-messages
