The emergence of the internet and the consequential array of social media networks have, without doubt, resulted in an exponential increase in new types of written language: blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and LinkedIn profiles to mention just a few. But with English being the most dominant language on the internet, how has social media changed the English language? There’s no denying that social media has had a drastic impact on the sheer volume of people we are now able to communicate with, it’s also had an impact on the frequency with which we are able to communicate with them. This has led to us being exposed to a myriad of different personalities, perspectives, and approaches when we use social media to communicate. With the exception of social media professionals and academic journalists, the majority of what is written by the general public on social media is not edited, supervised or checked to ensure that proper use of the English language is taken into consideration. With the freedom to use the English language however we choose to on social media, trends are bound to appear.
1.Tablet, which is used to refer to portable screens.
2.Troll, which is a term used to describe an internet user who seeks attention by making outrageous or unreasonable comments about something or someone.
3.Stream(ing), which is the transmission of data as a steady continuous flow.
4.Catfish, which is a term used to refer to an internet user who poses as someone other than themselves online
5.“Unfriend” is a completely new word that means “remove from friends”. It cannot be applied to real life - the phrase “stop being friends” is more appropriate - “stopped being friends”.The title of the horror movie "Unfriended" ("Remove from friends") plays up this ambiguity. Because this word means the death of a “friend”.
6.The "cloud" is now not only a cloud in the sky, but also a cloud data storage. And in this sense, the word is found online much more often than in its original
The coronavirus pandemic has forced most of the population to stay at home in quarantine and turn to social networks as a source of information about the situation in the world. Many users stay up late, flipping through endless news feeds, trying to find out how bad things are in different countries.
Meanwhile, the Internet has already coined a special term for this action-doomscrolling from the words "doom" and"flipping". Descalling not the only new word that gave us the pandemic of coronavirus. Due to the need to work from home, the Zoom app has grown in popularity.This demand for Zoom has attracted a large number of hackers who specifically connect to other people's conferences, which, as a rule, are not protected by passwords, and show unacceptable content on the air. This type of prank became known as «zoombombing».
"Covidiot" this term refers to those people who underestimate the danger of coronavirus, ignoring the requirements for self-isolation.
The use of acronyms are now commonplace substitutes to whole sentences:
MYOB = mind your own business2DAY = today
2MORO / 2MROW = tomorrow 2NITE / 2NYT = tonight
2U = to you 4U = for you
B = to be B4 = before
B4N = bye for now THX = thanks
BAU = business as usual BBL = to be back later
BC = because BF = boyfriend
BK = back ROFL = rolling of the floor laughing
These are just a few that demonstrate how social media speeds things up by lessening the need to write longer phrases and reduces space.
Conclusion
Obviously, social media is a rich playground for experimenting, creating new words, and reusing old ones; they also provide a platform for people who are not obsessed with grammatical rules and syntax, giving them the freedom to defy the common Maxims of ordinary English and be innovative, creative and forward-thinking. The language is and has always been constantly evolving. While the changes and trends we see in the language over time are significant, the core of the English language remains as strong and infallible as ever.
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