Five years ago I was still using a big, old, dusty desktop computer, but now I have a small portable laptop, same goes for television sets that are getting thinner and have a clearer picture quality, and cellular phones that have transformed from plastic and heavy to thin a light that is more of a gadget than a phone because it has more applications and you can do more with it than call someone.
For example one of the applications that the one's who designed it thought it would help is the Abbreviation App that helps you shorten the word for a fast texting.
Nowadays a big percentage of the children own a gadget like that and of course they download the Abbreviation App but although it can make it easier for them to text it also shortens the way they speak or even write in school. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/08/10/2651464.htm
I often hear not only kids but some adults that were born near the technology era speak or write with abbreviations such as L.O.L. the most common one or R.O.F.L. , L.M.A.O. or others.
They seem like words that shouldn't be used by kids at least after they become teenagers so it wouldn't affect them in their spoken and written language.
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