Today, I am blogging about the effects of social media,
mainly Twitter and Facebook, and teenagers. For the most part, teenagers mostly
communicate by means of either texting, Facebook, Skype, or even Twitter to
talk to our dearest friends that cannot be right next to us. This has really
shaped our entire world and the ways we communicate. Since all we do is
communicate in short hand like lol or rofl or brb, all of this really has an
effect on our educational world as well. Since we get used to writing in short
hand a lot of the time, sometimes we get tricked into writing this way in our
academic writing as well. To me, since we are all becoming more technologically
advanced with all aspects of our lives, eventually our way of writing will be
condensed into this short-handed form. Many of the adults that we have contact
with every day (parents, professors, bosses, ect) have a real problem with this
way of communication saying phrases like its “unprofessional” or “immature”. To
me, I just feel that this is their way of rebelling against the new wave of
technology that they know that is unstoppable. With kids of all ages, even some
of the younger kids I babysit for (3rd grade) has an “I-Phone”. So
even with all of the resistance coming down from our elders, eventually they
will give in, and all we will be doing it using text language in our workplace
and our everyday communications lives. I mean hw bad can it rly b? Les wds the
bttr rite? Shrt, swt and 2 the pnt!
I absolutely agree. I think most older generations see this type of communication as a bad thing but it's just an effect technology has language. I do agree that our generations writing skills are not the best but I don't think its because of social media.
ReplyDeleteI definately think social media and texting have hurt our spelling and our grammar. When you use slang talk constantly throughout the day then you will slowly become more and more accustomed to that. It is a problem, and I do not think there is much of a solution.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this rapid transition and growth of technology is hurting our future generations. This transition is desensitizing our future generations and even kids today because they are constantly texting and not putting any emotion into our conversations. There is no longer any face to face conversation or personal conversations. Everything is either made public via facebook and twitter, or it is by texting which lacks all emotion and is open to interpretation.
ReplyDeleteI do not think social media has hurt our spelling and grammar. I feel everyone knows when and when not to you slang or abbreviated words. There is a place to use slang, whether it is with your friends on a social website. I do not feel as if social media is the cause for poor grammar skills.
ReplyDeleteI feel that twitter is a major factor in the digression of the English language. This is because it condenses down all the information you want to share with a person into one hundred and forty characters. What I find interesting with this is that we are still able to communicate a message of where we are, or what are doing, and what we are thinking.
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