Daum: Texting turns 20, LOL

The telephone is great for complicated business discussions and catching up with old friends, but for day-to-day logistics, texting trumps talking. hpe anvrsre, txtn!

It's been an especially fruitful week for rueful lamentations about "kids today." Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the text message. Along with it came the predictable chorus of bellyaching about the demise of literacy, the shortening of attention spans and the rise of abbreviations and acronyms that take longer to decipher than it would to pick up the phone and have a real conversation.

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