A lady after my own heart. Had this very discussion at work today.
You and I are no longer young at heart. LOL is a young person's thing - I dislike it intensely and I'm not in a bad mood.
However,that pales into insignificance when I ponder on the use of the word 'of' - as in - 'He must of lived there' etc etc instead of the word 'have' Do these same people say 'Of you got any' instead of 'Have you got any' I don't think so. Lazy speech is now creeping into the written word and there is nothing we can do about it.
It is the evolution of the English language - much as we detest it and in a couple of hundred years, maybe even less, we (if we come back, that is) wouldn't be able to understand much of our language- much in the same way that we wouldn't have recognised the English language in the Middle ages.
Thak you, Suttontrust, I enjoyed that

Tricia
Here's another one - the use of the word 'well'
I bet he's well glad he did that.
I'm well pleased.
Etc .etc. Come on - hands up - how many use similiar expressions using the word 'well'
I'm quite nice, really

Tricia