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So why might Stanford students be opposed to Netspeak?
"The 'r' and 'u' substitutions [in place of 'are' and 'you' respectively] suggest that a user is experienced at IRC. Similarly, the variant spellings in 'z' [in place of 's'] suggest the fashionably defiant, individualistic postures assumed by rappers and hackers." -John C. Paolillo
Netspeak often has a distinct lack of capitalization and punctuation,
and it abounds in creative spelling. Stanford students, who have typically
been trained rigorously in the art of formal writing, perhaps find it
difficult to be informal like this. Some of the conventions of Netspeak
go even beyond the informal; as John C. Paolillo notes in the above quotation,
there is even an element of rebellion.