Some of it bugs me, some of it doesn't. The really common ones like lol and brb don't bother me and even I use them all the time. Ones like kik instead of kick and ne1 annoy me somewhat. ne1 takes me longer to type than anyone does because I have to slightly displace my hand to hit the 1 and then reposition, lol.
Also, kthxbai, or some other form of that gets under my skin. Every time I see that I think of a some arrogant little kid with no respect for other people. I think because I most often see it punctuating volleys in a flame war.
I really despise the stuff where they intentionally misspell words or insert numbers or other unusual characters in place of letters; heavy leetspeak is nauseating. It's just moronic and can only take longer to type. Usually when I see writing like that I don't bother trying to read it.
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OMGWTFBBQ11!111!!!!!11!!!kthxbi
*I used a
translator to write that by the way, I don't think I'd have it in me to actually do it by hand.