Text messaging detrimental to grammar, English language for nation

Being an English major I am very conscious of the way people talk in their everyday lives. Most everyone in the nation uses varying forms of bad grammar in their everyday speech. Who really wants to be grammatically correct in everything that they do? I know I don't it would get tedious after a while, even though I believe that knowing and being able to use grammar is a very good skill to have. Being perfectly correct in anything is extremely hard to do, but I strive to speak and write with as much perfection as I can get, even when I write the occasional text message. Through the advanced technology that we have at our disposal, there is a new way to communicate using text messaging or instant messaging services. With this new technology there has also come about a new way to talk using the same symbols that are used when someone sends a text message or an instant message. In my opinion this new way of speaking and writing is killing the way that the youth and many people in their twenties and thirties speak.

Gone are the days when people would use complete words and not have to worry about how much time it took them to say one simple sentence. In today's world everyone is so concerned with getting their thoughts to another person that they cannot even take the time to call that person on the phone because they are too busy. They believe that it would be quicker to text them and use phrases like lol or omg, instead of actually saying the words. In many ways text speech has made people lazy.
People have gotten to where they don't even notice when they use text speech in their everyday lives, and for a person who does not use many of the shortened symbols of text messaging, using these symbols in everyday speech makes a person seem lazy.
What is wrong with saying, completely everything that you want to, and it does not hurt to spell everything out in a text message. It may even make the point come across clearer to the person you are writing or talking to. It's something to think about.