I have been corresponding via email with a person in Germany. Some of what I write is in German. Since I do not know German well, I probably make mane grammatical errors. (BTW, should that comma have appeared in the previous sentence?) If I were corrected by some third party for those errors I would stop trying communicate in another language.

In all honesty, I know how to spell and type. But, when it comes to typing on my phone, my brain and finger aim for the right key, but if I happen to be off by a little bit, the key closest gets hit instead. That is why my spelling looks off because I really think, in the moment, I pressed the right button. Also since I don’t have the facebook app, some threads don’t allow me to scroll up and look at what I wrote before posting.

so true, but try telling the corrector that, lol. never goes well

Logical thinking is rarely applied to self-esteem issues. They're pretty much complete opposites.

It does bother me to see words misspelled I'll be honest but I don't know if the person on the other end is a kid, an elderly person who can't see (like my mom who is a very good speller like me but is almost blind) or is simply on a hand held device. It's not my job to decide what they should know. I have plenty of my own faults so I need to focus on my own. I have a weird way of switching words around in a sentence that probably drives people crazy but I'm not going to stop if some random stranger tells me to.

What do you get out of correcting ones mistake? I mean, mistakes happen. If it is a casual social media comment does it really even matter that much? Why would anyone feel the need to point out someone else's mistakes and possibly cause embarrassment to them? If you were proofreading a college paper or a resume, pointing out a mistake might be valid. Seriously, who really gives a rusty nail if someone mistypes a word? You don't have to be the grammar police.

Except that I find myself correcting the spell checker, as it inserts words that I had never meant to type, so then I have to go and teach it the right word. Errors pop out at me like sore thumbs, not my fault, that's how my brain works. So every time someone mangles the English language, my brain goes into auto-correct frenzy. Blame my parents. :P