[quote=@Zhen Zhen]<Snipped quote>

I've seen this kind of text on my Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and when I browse Tumblr as a guest or just around the internet and I've wondered so many times if this is the new way to write now.

It's my biggest pet peeve and wonder if it's anyone's too.

But then I get frustrated and say, maybe I should give in too since I get tired of typing so formally.[/quote]

I feel you - and personally there's a huge difference between typing casually (yo bud, sorry busy today) and liek tis wut i dun evn gt y sho lazy cnt txt prply oi.

If you're too lazy to type properly, then I'm too lazy to waste my time cracking my poor brain to read your crappy typo. Duh.

And if seeing that in social media messages isn't bad enough, there are even people are writing stories (fan fictions and also original works) exactly like that.

Not just English - even other languages like Chinese and Japanese too. I can't keep up with all these modern language trends - and I don't get the hype behind them either.