With the introduction of texting, emails, and the Internet a sort of shorthand has been created by the younger generation. There is a vast quantity of people that believe that this shorthand is ruining the ability of the newer generation to read and write, but I disagree on this. This shorthand that has developed makes the reader and writer actively think about the acronyms that are used. Beyond that they have to switch back and forth between normal writing for school and the texting shorthand which makes them more adaptive then those who do not.
When I first started texting I was all for the acronyms, but as I grew and progressed my shorthand usage became less and less. I still can read most shorthand, unless the sender made it up themselves, as can my friends and my younger siblings friends. The ability to read and write is not lost to us, it is just evolving. Evolving like it has since the beginning. We don't still use Middle English or even Elizabethan English because language isn't constant. It grows as people grow.
