Pathetic writing skill sets

Just a general observation, I've noticed a huge increase in the lack of proper spelling in most written documents. I, mean, why? There is no reason for this. When one considers the prevalence of "Spell Check" applications, there is no reason for poor spelling.

I could only assume (yeah, I know ALL about the ass-u-me thing) that the lack of spelling ettiquette must stem from the text messaging craze. I have personal experience at making a calendar reminder on my cell phone. There's a great deal of button pushing just to spell out the word
"spell". For example, these are the keystrokes for the word found in quotations when entered via a cell phone's keypad: "spell= 7,7,7,7 + 7 + 3,3 +5,5,5+5,5,5" which as anyone can see is alot of finger work. For the record that is 13 keystrokes for a 5 letter word!

However, the information contained within Blogs, Articles, and Personal Ads is chock full of misspellings and grammar snafu's. It's pitiful, really. I swear the number of times I read an email from friends or personal advertisements and the acronym LOL is used, I want to scream!