What can you say about writing short words in text messages?

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Writing short word like in text messages is likely to be a trend, nowadays. Text messages limit us with the numbers of letters and words to use, in result, we tend to maximize or do some short-cuts to words. For example, we use 'r' instead of 'are', 'y' instead of 'why', 'u' instead of 'you', etc. For me, it affects the good writing and correct spelling, so the need for proofreading and auto-checker is very important. With this, my spelling sometimes bothered me because I was used in shortening words like in text messaging.