Social Media You Vs. Reality You

I've noticed that a lot of my friends, and some of the internet population, write very disgustingly when it comes to talking online. I try to keep it at an acceptable level only throwing in a couple shortened words. One example would be that instead of writing out "though" I just simply leave it as "tho". I would say that that it's an acceptable alternative as it's not too far off and who needs all those extra letters that don't make sounds amirite? This goes along with the whole video game language and how at times it can be so abstract. 

I used to be all into using the text language using words like ROFL and roflcopter amongst other really nasty words. Now it seems that I'm limited to lol, lel, or if it was extremely funny, lmao. 

I am tolerant of this language while it stays in the online format, in real life... It's a bit gross seeing people use LOL or any other word to "laugh". Recently some people have been using the word "KEK", which is horrid both online and offline, but they continue to use it often pairing it with "LMAO". The worst part about it is that they say it like an actual word and not as individual letters. So it LAMOW instead of L-M-A-O, it's just so ehh... I believe this is just one of those things that will continue to happen as long as someone on the receiving end gets pleasure or discomfort out of it.