I called that the "Tard Experiment"

[TheBigBB]

I've said it in a different post where I fear for the nation's youth. They don't know how to express themselves without the use of vulgar profanity or offensive racial slurs, and speak in lazy internet/texting induced jibberish.

I hear where you're coming from here, but be careful where you go with this idea. I work at a company with people ranging in age from 18-80, and the 40+ crowd is just as bad as anyone in terms of their grammar and communication skills. Not everyone is bad at it, but I don't find that using stupid abbreviations is necessarily any worse than a 40 year-old guy who thinks it's a good idea to type in all caps lock because he wants his text to be easy to read. It's just people in general tend towards being lazy with their writing. The problem is probably "texting" in and of itself, since it lends itself to keeping messages very short and using a lot of shorthand. Point of interest: they used to teach "speedwriting" in my high school to take better notes, which was essentially teaching people how to write stuff in idiotic gibberish shorthand. hah!

The real issue here is maturity level, and it's always going to be more likely that a minor will not be mature about things, regardless of their education level or anything else. But some adults are going to be really bad about it as well. I don't want to bully around teenagers just because of their ages! There are going to be many exceptions to your rule.