Their vs. there vs. they're

English is not my first language but I did my best to become as fluent as possible. And I find it strange and mildly annoying when so many native speakers are so careless with their spelling.
Their = belonging to them
There = answers the question "where?"
They're = they are.

And no, I'm not a grammar Nazi, but this is very basic!

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djjohnson · 41-45, M

I've the same issue Your and You're. I think that part of the issue is that most people rely on auto correct and spell check too much. And since they don't check to see what auto correct decided to put in when they mistyped it and since it doesn't get the squiggly red line under it for misspelling they don't even notice what happened. I sometimes forget to double check my texts when I write "Your". For some reason my finger often misses the "r" but because "YOU" is still correct it doesn't highlight it.