The Ultimate in Texting Laziness
This is as random as random thoughts go. OK, I admit it. I text. Not texting in this day and age is like having a rotary phone. I do try not say that I “texted” someone. I don’t think that is a word. Also I can’t text with my thumbs. I think that is age related. I also don’t text abbreviate. I don’t write cul8tr.
Recently I have realized the ultimate in texting laziness. It is the letter K. I text someone and they text back K. Are you kidding me? We had to shorten a two letter word down to one letter? Is it so hard to add the O? Please do me a favor. Text me the O. I would really appreciate the extra effort.
Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog 
August 24, 2010 at 7:09 pm
the way i see it, 80% of are results come from 20% of what we do (aka the Pareto Principle), and typing the “O” in “Ok” does not fall into that 20% and thus is unnecessary as far as im concerned
August 23, 2010 at 8:48 am
Coach,
Glad to know someone feels in a similar way. I personally feel like any communication via text message that I send should be passable if turned in as an English paper. My disdain for lazy writing and my refusal to respond to it led to the genesis of my mother’s ability to text with proper form. It’s not much more effort to punctuate and spell things correctly than it is having to toggle through letters to numbers and back again.
Regards,
Carson Boddicker
August 20, 2010 at 9:30 am
Good topic! I wonder if we’ll become a thumbs exercising society?!
August 20, 2010 at 4:49 am
Mike,
And the logical extension of that is that we will also have vestigal limbs due to Darwin’s theory of use/disuse! 🙂
August 20, 2010 at 4:35 am
Aaron- it is a little scary with kids. They wander around like morons, heads down, texting away. I think as we continue to evolve we may lose the ability to speak.