What about Russian writing in Latin alphabet?

I partially agree with Scott. SMS in Latin alphabet will be longer then in Cyrillic (140 vs. 50), that is the main reason of it's use. Also there are teenagers, who think it's cool to use Latin symbols, but as for me it's stupid and impolite to other people, who can also read your message. I myself usually do not read russian text, when it's scribbled in Latin not only because I need to waste more time to read it, but mostly because of differences in everyone's way of writing it. The sence in writing in Latin is in using Latin sounds to create Russian word. So, in the phrase 'Menya zovut Sergej' you must not see Russian letters, you must read Latin to create Russian word. Unfortunately, some people often use different transcriptions, or use 'u' to Russian 'и' and 'y' to Russian 'у'. Some of them may change 'ch' (rus. ч) on '4', because Russian word 'четыре' starts with letter 'ч'; number 6 may be placed instead of letter 's' etc. So they got really messy SMS or whatever they've tried to write. You can try to use google translator, it will show your Russian phrase, written in Latin, so you can learn how to read it. But really... are you sure you want it?