The Tilde (very short and random note)

Source from Wikipedia, that wonderful almost omniscient program after Google.

The Tilde, usually written as ~ has a noble history related to language and linguistics.

In European languages such as Portuguese or Spanish, ~ is used to mark nasalisation, such as informação (information) or razão (reason).

In Arabic, ~ is a maddah, used as a mark to lengthen the reading of "a", such as the Qur'aan (القرآن).

See? Very noble character. And it has uses in dictionaries, European languages, some Asian languages (such as Vietnamese), computer programming, mathematics...

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So how did ~ turn from mentioned above into:

"Ayang~

caye lapaw~~

nak ais-tweem~~~"

How did a noble character used as markings in religious texts and powerful words gets reduced to being a part of vomit-inducing "gedik" SMS messages? -_-"