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Chat abbreviations like "ur" meaning "you are" because surely if you have something meaningful and valuable to say you should take the extra .002 milliseconds to actually say it rather than putting the onus back onto me to spend energy deciphering what you are trying to say.

Agreed. Any small time investment in writing results in huge time savings to your collective readers. You might save a second typing two characters instead of six, but it forces each member of your audience to spend an additional second to read what you wrote.