It's Elementary...

Like most people in my age group, I too have fallen victim to the wonderful world of social networking. Every morning, I sit down at my desk with my breakfast of choice and log on to Facebook, anxious to see what's awaiting me on the other end.
Of course there are the friend requests and horrible photo tags that always lead to a day full of hilarious comment notifications... but some days, a rare gem waits for me in my inbox.

Today, I received a message that nearly knocked me out of my seat! It wasn't the person that sent me the message that made me almost die. It was by far the content. The three lines of absolute confusion went as follows:
"HOW U BEEN MS LDY!!!!DIS IZ ______ FROM (insert high school name here)!!!I AINT SEEN YA SXY SELF IN MAD LONG SINCE HIGH SKOOL!!!I SEE U B ADVENTURIN LIK
CRAZIIE HUH!!!"
I was floored! While I miraculously understood everything that he was asking me, I was amazed that THIS was a product of MY high school. So in true STAR fashion, I had to entertain him. I replied:
"Hey you, what's up?!? It's been a very long time. How's life treating you? You know me already, I always liked being daring and different so, I'm all over the place. Lol"
To which he replied:
"WELL IM GOOD!!!GOTTA DAUGHTER!!!GO 2 QUEENZBORO!!!JUS BEIN A M3 DA PERSON I WAS DESTINE 2 B DA MOST REQUEST'D!!!IM CHILLIN THO!!FATHER-LYFE TAK A LOT OUTTA M3!!MY LIL GURL IZ CRAZII!!AN SHE NT EVEN 2 YET!!"

What the hell am I supposed to say in response to that gibberish? While people don't have to treat a message or wall post on Facebook as their next english assignment, I can't bring myself to understand how a 25 year old man who not only has a child, but is also pursuing a college degree can write in such a fashion. Punctuation and grammar are the fundamentals of an elementary education! We cannot complete the 5th grade without demonstrating a full understanding of grammar usage and punctuation, not to mention spelling, yet we graduate high school and throw it all out of the window? This man has a child that will be entering school one day very soon and this is how he types?

Maybe I'm overreacting but, I am slightly offended that he would even send this message to me and want to be taken seriously! You can call me bourgeois or any other name in the book but this mess is simply unacceptable. I have half the mind to reply to him and let him know that I can't understand a word that he typed and that he should try again but this time he should have a dictionary handy. Did that spelling come naturally to him? If I sat down and purpos3ly r3plac3d all of my E's with 3's and mzpelld wrdz just for th3 h3ll of it, I'd just get a headache(certainly close to the one you probably have from reading my last sentence)!

Maybe I'm looking at it in the wrong way. Anybody with the ability to type like that has to be talented. I've obviously mistaken his genius for stupidity!

Over and out!