They've become so used to this informal language, that they cannot write formally when they need to.
If you look at texting as a bad thing towards talking and ruining face to face communication skills, then lets take a look at that. If they're texting you, but won't talk to you face to face, maybe they haven't had very good confrontational skills to begin with, maybe that person wouldn't be talk to you at all if he/she didn't have texting as a way to talk to you.
The unusual move comes as several U.S. cities elbow for a spot in Google's new "Fiber for Communities" program. The Web giant is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second.
Google declined to comment on whether it's taking the whole "Google, Kansas" thing seriously.
Video about media convergence. Some information in the video is from PEW reports, but it contains a lot of other interesting statistics. At the end it mentions someone's hypothesis that what technology is in our smartphones now will fit in a blood cell in 25 years.