I constantly hear
people complaining about how people on social networks seem not to know how to
write. Grammar mistakes are frequent.
Abbreviations are even more frequent. We have built throughout the years a new
complete pattern of communication.
Social Networks had
been a big influence in the changing of our communication style. Sites like
Twitter, where a limit of characters is required, had caused people to play
with grammar and create abbreviations that allow them to express whatever they
are trying to. When I hang out with friends that have an important level of
engagement with Twitter, it is usual to hear them say that they even accept
that their brains are already accustomed to think in 140 words or less.
What about Facebook and
other sites? People had become lazy, and any shortcut that they can come out
with they will use it for them not write a lot on a post. People do not read
long posts; at least not usually. There is so much to read on social media that
people had learned how to be concise for their own success.
And it seems fair, the
adaptation of a new way to write, our new language, our web language. But, the
question is what consequences to our languages will this writing pattern bring?
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