Can I buy a vowel?

I'm sort of torn about Twitter. Well, not Twitter, per se, but texting in general. On the one hand, there is evidence that it's "dumbing down" today's youth with abbreviations, symbols and whatnot. It sometimes amazes me what my 29 year old roomie asks me to spell as he's playing some game on his phone with his buddies, a Scrabble-type game that he seems to take very seriously. AND I play "Words with Friends", yet another one where the most incredible things are okay. I'm having hemorrhages over some of the truly obscenely bastardized things that pass, and some of the real, been around a LONG time words that don't, it's a challenge, to say the least. BUT, on the other hand, I kind of wish I had texting ability on my phone because it's like playing Wheel of Fortune. I have Twitter on my computer, so, dinosaur that I am, I still get the occasional Tweet, and it's sort of fun trying to decipher what my friends are actually saying to me AND more importantly, this...
I am, as you have seen, a very wordy person, so boiling down the stuff I want to say in so few characters is sometimes daunting. But as a writer friend wrote in how to write a synopsis for your books,( Check him out at The Green Water blog right here, he's brilliant) you have to boil the whole thing down to two sentences. Good Grief, really!!!! I worked and worked on doing that on the book I'm working on, and I finally had, I thought, done it. It just about killed me, I re-read it about 20 times. I was doing IT as I was fleshing out the characters and plot, so it was all there before me. Big mistake there. I sent it off to a friend for a "review"... and it was favorable, but as I was reading her reply, I realized with horror that although I had managed to mention, by name, the two friends of the main character, I had failed to mention HIS name!! Did I mention that I re-read it about 20 times? With the whole thing in front of me, I was Seeing his name above and below, but not in that vital couple of words strings. Heavens to Betsy, was I embarrassed. It will eventually get to where you have to boil your book down to  60 characters, and that is where I could lose my little mind...oh wait, on the OTHER hand, too late.
Thnx 4 cmng,
Jst sying, Drgnfly