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This article is from educationworld.com, so we are getting the views from an educator's point of view. Different side of the spectrum

This is more than just the landing page. This is a whole website devoted to the negative effects of texting on literacy

However, in the midst of the media frenzy, linguistic and learning theorists have become interested in an offshoot of this text messaging 'craze' - a written vocabulary that has emerged in its wake . . . 'textese'. Textese is an abbreviated vocabulary that includes initialisms (e.g.lolfor laughing out loud), letter/number homophones (e.g. gr8 for great), contractions or shortenings (e.g. cuzfor because), emoticons (symbols representing emotions (e.g.: (for sad), and the deletion of unnecessary words, vowels, punctuation, and capitalization (Thurlow 2003; Carrington 2004;

This is a pretty nice source too, with a lot of great information.

This is a great article from the Baltimore Sun

Just the title of this article is awesome!