mashers & clashers

ok, so i was watching the news, maybe 3 or 4 days ago, & they had a piece on that just made me crack up with laughter. they were talking about how the english language is going down hill & how texting shorthand is becoming the "new language". come on. they don't have anything better to report to the public on but teaching parents how to decode their kids private texts on their own phone. this was probably THE stupidiest thing that i have ever seen on the news.