U R 2 c00L!

What is the deal with chatting online? I've run into so many people that will shorten words that are easy enough to type out. You into u, Are into r, to into 2, it's friggin stupid if you ask me. What's so hard about actually typing things out that will take you a whole two keystrokes to finish? Even past that, people who use numbers in replacement of letters, and then can't even spell the word correctly in the first place. What, does that make you cool? Was there some kind of convention when the first chatroom came into play that went like :

Person :Ok, we're the first. We need some special things that don't happen anywhere else.

Person2 :Oh, I know! W3 c4n t41k l1k3 th1s s0 n0 0n3 kn0ws wtf w3r3 t41king 4b0ut!

Person :That's a good idea! Let's make up a new way to type so that when new people come in they're totally lost and get agravated. That will be the best thing in the world! WE'RE SO COOL!

Person 3: Oh, and we can make words shorter, and easier to type. U li3k tht id34?

Person :Genious! Let's make that happen too! People will feel at ease while looking like COMPLETE F'N MORONS but they won't have to type as much!

I also love how people can get into a chatroom, talk like one of these people and then critisize me when I happen to not spell a word correctly. As if they have any room to speak up and poke fun at the fact i hit the wrong button when typing with a near 100wpm. I also hate the fact that people get agravated when someone asks them to just type out the word, and they feel the excuse "It's shorthand, everyone does it (also seen as : it's shrthnd, evry1 dos it)" is a valad excuse.

What is so wrong with having good grammer in chat? The fact of using a period or a question mark in the correct place, or correct capatilization or a comma in the correct place saves alot of chatting if you ask me. Capatilization is the difference between "I helped Jack off the horse" and "I helped jack off the horse". MUCH clearer!

And what's with the weird capatal and lower case words? WhY do SOmE pEoPLE FeeL tHe nEeD tO SpeAK LikE ThIS? What does it do? And how does one decide what to capatolize and what not to? Is there some kind of code, and if so why bother going by it when you could just type fast and normal?

Spread the word, speaking correctly in a chatroom is COOL! Everyone does it, it's a good thing!