1 Step Forward, 10 Steps Backward

So reading the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, it's amazing how great the writings are in each.  Looking back in time to the era that they were written, we would probably say that those times were very primitive.  I'm talking about the way we communicated.  Everything had to be written down on a paper, rolled up in some fancy way and sealed, then sent with some guy on a horse or on a boat to cross the ocean.  Yup, the true definition of snail mail.  Over the past 150 years (more so in the past 20 years) technology has changed so much that so called snail mail is basically extinct aside from the damn people trying to send us all those coupons and junk mail that only the sad and lonely read.  With new technology like email, digital scans and mobile phones it's so much easier to communicate with anybody regardless of where they are in the world.  So with such great advancements in the world with communication, it seems that those that use these new forms of communication have become less and less smart.  The people that make them, sure as hell are smart, but those that use them are dumb as bricks.  Let me give you an example.  LOL or Laughing out Loud.  Let's tear this apart for a moment.  First: is there any other real way of "laughing" besides out loud?  If it's under your breath then it would be chuckling or giggling.  So when you laugh, it would be out loud.  Why can't we just say "I'm laughing"?  Makes much more sense.  Yet there is another abbreviation that is ALOL, Actually Laughing Out Loud.  As if saying LOL wasn't bad enough we have to say that we are actually doing it.  OMG, or Oh My God, do we really write like this now?  How pathetic is that. There are millions of pages on the internet that have texting abbreviations.  Why are people spending time to actually make these pages.  Why the hell are they not putting on the pages titled Texting Abbreviations something like "Get a fucking life and write like a real person".  Most of these abbreviations started with texting on cell phones.  Ok, back when there were plans for cell phone texting that had 200 messages a month then maybe I could see using abbreviations.  But why not just call the person and get out those 20 messages in 2 minutes of personal communication.  But now days when everybody has unlimited text messaging, can we please go back to writing for real.  Stop using stupid abbreviations and just say oh my god, I'll be right back instead of OMG, BRB.  Let's start giving the due respect back to our countries founding father's and at least make an effort to communicate properly.  After all, our freedom was written on paper signed and sent back to England which was received months later.  If freedom can take time, then writing someone a text can take a few seconds more and write the damn words out!