Philosophical Musings on Texting

I had a thought this morning while lying in bed and smoking a cigarette. I've seen studies that note the common tendency of people to misinterpret the meaning of words when sent via e-mail, text or various other forms of context-free communication. While I don't believe that such communication is entirely context-free I do think it gets as close as you can to it. Still, what popped into my head this morning stems from my understanding of Wittgenstein's 'meaning-as-use' theory of language and the advent of a culture increasingly based around highly contextless communication. Language is a public act wherein the meaning of words is conveyed in how the words are used in relation to the language-game being played. Much like how a deck of cards are used to play a variety of games with the game itself determining what the meaning of each card is, words are the cards of language. Meaning isn't attached until a word is used in public and that meaning is constantly negotiated. Puns are a perfect example of such negotiation.
Wittgenstein also did something else when he formulated the idea of language as a purely public act--he did away with the idea of a private language. In other words, a language you create in your head holds no meaning, no real meaning, until you use it to communicate with someone else. By making this proposition Wittgenstein overturned about four hundred years of metaphysics by turning on it's head the Cartesian statement, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes used that formula as a way of proving that his mind existed. But if language is a public act and a private language is impossible then the formula is illogical. That "I" of Descartes is a public "I", not a private one. Thus did Wittgenstein prove that other minds exist while removing the one proof that your mind exists.
So what the hell does any of this have to do with the texts and e-mails you get every day? Obviously if language is a public act then it makes sense for one to misinterpret this kind of contextless communication. Yet I think we may be on the verge of something new in our understanding of communication and other people's minds. In order to get the meaning of a text or an e-mail you need a deep understanding of the mind of the person sending the message. What I think is that through the use of this near-contextless communication we may actually develop a heightened sense of context in personal relationships. The required understanding of someone else's mind for text-based communication to work properly would revolutionize how we interact, the ways we express ourselves in our behaviors and convey meaning. The philosophy of language will have to adapt to incorporate the rise of this kind of contextless communication.