R U using txt abbreviations?

While New Zealand allows students to use "Text-Speak" in exams, it seems that Australians have gone one better and are now using common texting errors in baby names!

LOL.

I wonder if this is only a transitory effect, and five years from now we'll all be looking back at the 90's and 10's as that funny time when odd abbreviations popped up, only to be washed away as technology improves and solves some of these self imposed limitations.

I know I tend to type full words on the QWERTY keyboard of the iPod touch more than I do on a cell-phone's numeric keypad.