Goober (literate)

Literate in the 21st century means the reading and writing is done in text books, internet, mostly anywhere in life. Even when you really don't want to do it you have to, even on your cell phone you are writing when you are texting. Literate is not only reading and writing it's also math and finding information. People these days use short hand Like "lol" (laugh out loud) are they are getting lazy and not using the English language correctly or using short hand because they don't want to spend time on their phone, myspace, facebook, or msn?