notsomuch, I share your consternation. There is a difference between brevity motivated by small and portable devices, and the borderline illiteracy demonstrated by the text in your original post.
I may be old school too, but, in my opinion, there is nothing like screwing up spelling and grammar to weaken whatever message you're trying to convey. For an amusing example, check out this link: http://bit.ly/cQ7UNM