"Language is an arena meant for innovation and not stagnation.  Social media is causing people to be more efficient and judicious with their sentences, words, and even letters. This forces each member of Twitter and Facebook to make a very important distinction in their online voice, and the result of this decision is incredibly influential in the building of one’s online brand and personality and on the English language as a whole.  As language continues to change through social media, we will see different people take different approaches to writing, speaking, and communicating.  This will cause language to become more personal and more subjective: we can see this with every tweet, with every status."  Eric Abrams.


Hypothesis: Social Media is rapidly growing, and so is the English language. Social Media is actually helping the adaptation of our language. it is not really evolving, as Eric Abram says "it is not something that organically breathes, changes, and evolves over time on its own".


The English language is a complicated thing, what with the many different ways of spelling and pronouncing every word, and the small things like there and their. As the Human race evolves, so too will all the languages we use. It is not a bad thing though as many people would like to portray, but rather, its proof of humanity becoming more efficient in the way they speak. all these new abbreviations and such have even come to be incorporated into speaking to one another face to face, "I totally lolled at the funny cat pic, like omg it was so funny!". simple abbreviations like this are making it easier to say a sentence, in much shorter of a time, and is actually being called "effective and more conversationalist" as it allow for much more speech to occur in a minute,then using full words and pronunciation. so too are these words being used in social media everywhere "OMG I totz went to the cenna 2day... smf!!!!!" (smf: so much fun). this is a simple but common Facebook status you would see, the only real place you would be likely to go and see near-perfect grammar, and maybe the occasional "lol" or "gtfo" (rude language) would be forum sites and blogs such as this one you're reading. 


The only difficulty is explaining it. so let's see how I go. Jargon (also know as net-slang) is increasingly becoming part of the English language, with over 3,000 words derived from the internet, are incorporated in dictionaries. Schools are starting to become weary of the effects social media is having on students, as they are seeing more "gr8"s, "u"s and "r"s in student's schoolwork. They should not be scared of this change though, as it inevitable that this will one of the biggest changes ever, written language joining net-slang into it.


There are many video games that have there own set of custom words, and all games differ with their vernacular. World of warcraft have their own set of words, where Call Of Duty has their own words. They also have different meanings in different countries.

This just proves that Language is just evolving, but it's just going back to how we started. Primitive talking, where only a set few of us even grasp a small understanding of what other groups are saying.

English has always been the hardest language to ever learn, and it's getting harder by the day... instead of using this stupid lingo, why not take that extra second to type the full word? it makes you look smarter and everyone can understand it. All it takes is a bit of effort to reach out and speak like a normal human, not some tech junkie. Don't be a 'butthurt Dweller" (basement geek) and use proper english. it could even help you with your career and lifestyle

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 LOL, gtfo noob!

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