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The cellular device enters the picture

Its difficult to blame the Internet alone for the state of the English language these days. It plays a huge role in the gradual degradation of spelling everywhere, true, but its far from alone. That most infamous of wireless devices, the cell phone, also plays a major role in this fiasco.
And, yes, perhaps fiasco is too strong a word. Communication is about getting your point across, and Internet lingo does, generally, do just that. This is especially true of phone language, for though strings of text on the Internet may be used just to baffle and annoy others phone text messages are generally meant to get a point across. You want to direct something to someone elses attention.
This usually leads to laziness. Normal typing skills fall out of use as abbreviations take sway. Even the best of spellers give up on punctuation and drop down to lowercase letters for the entirety of their messages. And every time they do their linguistic skills suffer just a little bit more. Not by much, mind, but it all adds up.
And, unfortunately, this has resulted in acceptance by most forms of media. Texting language is perfectly acceptable as a marketing device since most kids these days (how crotchety Ive become at 26) can relate. Dont believe me? Proof:

Short, mildly humourous and downright scary to me. If people actually start talking like that I fear I may jump off a bridge.
And the worst part is, these ads are successful. Theyre targeting an audience primed for this brand of humour because this is exactly how most people text. There are few complete words, and if there are they usually come strewn with typos since texters cant be bothered cleaning up their language.
The problem is speed. Texting is symbolic of getting ones message across lickety split. It has revolutionized communication time  but unfortunately, our fingers cant quite keep up. So to speed the process along texters use stunted equivalents of real words. And, like it or not, those of us who scream at the sight of abbreviated conversations must bear the brunt of such blows. We MUST, because everyone else gives us no choice. />

The cellular device enters the picture