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Appreciations made sense in the era of ten-key messaging - except for the (older) irc/chat shortcuts like ttyl, lol (but you could also argue that’s what autocomplete is for). You’ve got a whole keyboard. Use it.
But autocomplete just gave us "appreciations" when you meant to type "abbreviations," so you still gotta pay attention.
And the era of SMS, where you had 160 letters and had to be creative to push as much information into them to avoid paying for a second SMS.