You know you're old when you can’t understand a word of someone’s space.

Ok so I understand how busy everyone is, that they can't be bothered to take the extra few microseconds of their life to type words out properly..Fair enough, no skin off my back etc.

It’s just a little frustrating when you cannot understand what is being written. Now I'm only 20, and I don’t consider myself old by any means (although as I can still remember when there was a grand total of only 6 DVDs on the shelves, so that probably makes me old to anyone born in the last 16 years) but I find some of these spaces totally incomprehensible.

Case in point, I saw the word “4rm” the other day on some space or another. Ok so I can understand “txt” language from the days in which I was paying 10p per text message and needed to cram a lot in a small space to save money, but seriously, “4rm” says to me “forum”.

How on earth can “4rm” mean from? Surely, if you must bastardise the English language with a notably extreme shortage of time on your hands, it’s easier to write “frm” than “4rm”. Not only is the “F” key comparatively nearer to the “R” and the “M” keys than the “4” key, thus saving 0.0000000000000000231 milliseconds of your life, but it would also save me 20 minutes attempting to decipher what should (and ultimately is bound to be) an easy-to-read, brainless page of drivel about how painful life is or how your rabbit died or your granddad has a cough or something..

So, maybe it’s not the case that I’m too old, maybe everyone else is retarded. Comments welcome.