Language Evolution by Social Media

Now a days as we all know social media plays a great role in our daily life both personally and professionally. Social media not only have changed our life styles but also have modified our languages, added new words to our vocabulary and also have given new meaning to few old known words.

Pay attention to discussion in your social networking sites and you can spot emerging new words, new uses of words and may be even invent one yourself.

We all know-‘The word that surrounds us every day influences the word we use’. Therefore so much of new words we see in the screen of our P.Cs, lap tops, tablets and smartphones, are also influencing the words and language we use.

From the words Unfriend and Selfie, we can clearly see that how social media is having an impact on our languages plus how it is adding up new words to our vocabulary.

Language now is evolving partly through our interaction with technologies.

As the languages and words we use to communicate with each other over social media are more easy and flexible than that of the formal writings hence those are more accepted by us. The combination of informal, personal communication and the mass audience afforded by social media is the recipe for this rapid change.

We are quite familiar with the problems of word limit while we surf few of our favorite social sites from mobile, like on Twitter they help us make the most of our 140 characters. This problem of expressing our whole emotion and feeling in only 140 characters was fixed by using acronyms of lengthy word like- LOL (laugh out loud), ROFL (rolling on floor laughing), ASAP (as soon as possible) and there are many acronyms like these.

There is another way to express our feelings in less characters are Emoticons, i.e. J for smile, L for sad, :-D for happiness etc. this way this the help of emoticons and acronyms we do express our whole emotion even within few limited characters.

Social media like facebook has contributed a lot more than other social networking sites to offer up new meanings to some old familiar words such as friend, like, status, wall, timeline, page and profile.

The evolution of language became easier than ever in this era of social media. No longer had use of jargon, formal words are done recent days…even journalists also changed their language of writing from heavy formal word to the words easily accepted by the readers.

And yes, some of us despair at how use of this informal medium can lead to an equally casual attitude to grammar. But the truth is that social media is great for word geeks. It provides a rich playground for testing with, developing and undermining language.

Therefore using of social networking sites can also be a great way keep up with these changes, if some people feel left behind by all these changes.

How I Met Him…

It was raining heavily outside, after finishing our dinner I and my younger sis in our room were chitchatting about our friends…also we were discussing about what we did whole day and all etc. meanwhile my phone rang and I was sure about who’s on the other side. I picked up the phone and asked to call few min later.

After putting off the phone, we both went to maa like every day to wish her ‘Good Night’ and came back to our room. After a while my phone vibrated, I put it on vibration mode as my sister went to sleep so it’s better not to disturb her.

I received the call and headed towards the balcony which was attached to our bedroom.

A gentle and soft voice came from the other side…. ‘Hello…….hello!!!’.

I replied ‘Ya Dev, I can here you…… so tell me what you were going to tell me? For which you asked me to free myself from every work so that we can talk without any disturbance…..what’s the matter?'.

For few sec he kept numb then with hesitant voice he said ‘we can’t carry on any more, we have to end up our friendship here only’.

‘Oh please stop joking….am not in a mood to joke’, I said.

‘Am not joking, am serious’, he replied.

I said, ‘ok fine’ and disconnected the call and took a seat on the bean bag which was there at the corner. 

Then I keep on thinking why he said so??? After being in friendship for last six months, why dev is behaving like this?? Is it me or in any manner did I hurt him??

I was very disturbed and called him back to clear out why he wants to end our friendship.

He picked up the call as soon as the phone rang…. If am not wrong it was merely a single ring after which I heard his voice.. ‘Hello’.

‘Why you are behaving so insane? Why you want to end it up?’, I said

‘Because I don’t want things, turn to be difficult for you due to me’, he replied.

Now it was very much clear to me as he replied so, that why he want to end this up. It was nothing but due to few of our school mates who were against our friendship, were unnecessarily spreading bad rumors about me so that I quit my friendship with him. And the reason for doing such stuffs is nothing but they do not want me to come out from the old relationship.

I really didn’t care about what they say or what they feel, for me my friendship matter a lot. But being my well-wisher more over such a good friend he was concern about my image.

I replied him positively, ‘I don’t care, for me our friendship matters more than what people say’.

‘But this way it won’t work out, for our friendship I can’t let you down’, he replied strictly.

However honestly speaking I do not wanted to lose him and his friendship….at that moment I felt everything is going to end here. The  clock will stop striking, the earth will stop rotating therefore the dark phase of life started from now as there will be no sunshine anymore, the twittering of bird won’t ever be heard as there will no morning from now…

Somehow I managed to reply him in mushy voice, ‘I never want to lose you’.

‘Bip….bip…bip....’, he disconnected the phone.

Sitting on the balcony I was recollecting every memory with him. How we met? When we became friends? Etc.

I still remember those days, after going through a terrible relationship disaster it was more than impossible for me to be in this relationship anymore….. I was all broken and shattered. And was trying hard to come out from that relationship and pushing myself more into studies as this was a crucial year for me since I was in 12^th.

It was the month of June, one fine evening when I, my mom and my sis were having tea and cookies sitting at the balcony, suddenly my phone rang. I peeped at the screen of my mobile, and it was an unknown number.

I received the call with ‘Hello!’

From the other side an unfamiliar voice replied, ‘am Dev, your class mate hope, I didn’t disturbed you’

‘Oh! Ya dev, no not at all ’, I replied

‘I got your number from our biology teacher. And can you please bring your practical copy tomorrow as I missed few classes. I’ll just check what has been done in the previous classes ’, he said.

‘Ok, surely I will’, I said

‘Thanks, bye’……….’ya bye’ saying that we both disconnected the phone.

Though he was my class mate but this was the first time I talked to him. Firstly he was a new student; he joined our class at 11^th standard. Secondly, he is serious and reserved sort of a guy. Attending classes, staying busy with practical works, doing assignments was his nature. And am just opposite to him I was an old student from 5^th standard  I am in this school. I bunked  classes sometimes, was an average student all through but ya I never  use to bunk biology classes as it was my favorite subject in school.

May be that’s the reason ma’am recommended my biology copy to dev and gave my number to him.

Then next day I gave my copy to him and that was the day when we actually saw each other properly for the first time. After I came back home from school was watching TV, sitting on the couch and having my tiffin. At that time a message flash on the mobile screen with a bip sound. I saw the message it was a thank you message from dev.

This was how we started to conversing with each other. And slowly became friends.

In every difficulty he stood by me, every time he advised me and motivated me to stand strong against the odds of life to overcome them bravely, he also taught me to love myself.

I was deeply in my thoughts then suddenly I felt tears rolled down my cheeks, I wiped them gently and decided to call him back. It was 4:45am and I was sure that he also hasn't slept. Took up the phone and dialed his number, but he didn't received the call. Again I redialed, this time he disconnected the call without receiving it. Then after a while he called backed….

As soon as I received the call I haven’t left any scope for him to speak and said, ‘listen I don’t want to lose you, it doesn't matter to me what they think about me, for me you and our friendship matters the most. They are just a small chapter of my life, after few months which will be closed forever and I need you forever in my life till the last chapter of my life’.

On the other side he was all numb and didn't reply for few mints…

I said, ‘hey, are you there?’

‘Hmm’, he replied.

Then with a mawkish voice he said ‘I too never wanted to lose you ever in my life, you taught me to smile, you changed my life and made it beautiful, and you are blessings to me. I want to be happy n keep on smiling forever for which I need you beside me all through my life’.

‘Then why you were forcing me to go n end up everything here?’, I asked

 The reply was, ‘I do not want you to face such criticism and controversies so ending up our friendship will bring an end to everything….’

I said, ‘we haven’t met to end up things like this, but to walk a long distance together, side by side’

And this is how my love life opened its first chapter.

This year we are going to celebrate our 5^th love anniversary…and we are more than happy with each other. And I still thank him for giving meaning to my life, also for loving me so much.

Behind the mask of HUMANITY…….

It was 8:45 am, almost from last 2 hours ‘He’ is suffering from tremendous pain, lying beside the road but no one was bothered to go and help him.

As soon as I got to know, I rushed down my stairs to foster him with water, then took him up and sheltered him in better place. Witnessing his ailing condition I suspected it to be a speedy car bang but later got to know he was beaten up with a log of a tree by a boy. Meanwhile my mom called up some doctors to fetch some medical help but no one turned up, at that time it was near about 12 noon.

Me, myself and maa had no other better option to provide him brisk fluids and little nursing.

Then disgusted me, came back home and had lunch after which I felt asleep….suddenly I woke up and realised it was too late, I checked my mobile….’ahh! its 6:55’ at afternoon. I went to the kitchen and asked maa ‘Is he ok?’

She replied ‘he is same as he was’. My younger sister was equally concerned for the same.

Then we decided to help him as we couldn’t see him bare hell lot of pain which in turn was making his condition worse.

Then after we fed him a paste made of milk and biscuits followed by some analgesic. As it was raining heavily and preferably cold, we secured him in a warm n safe shade.

Sighting this many people around us asked…why were we doing all this, are we crazy??? It’s very dangerous!!! Few advised us to stay away from him and leave him the way he is….. even few said it’s his deed for which he is suffering now & bla ……bla….. bla….

Once I thought to ask them that whether they will be able to say all these if it would have been their family member???? But I confined myself as it will be of no use.

Only because ‘He’ is a street DOG (Yes! He is Dog) people are saying all these nonsense stuff??????

Are they Humans???? Are they civilized??? Is it the true face of ours behind the mask of humanity??

Don’t they know the quality of soul which a human have, the same an animal also have!!! They feel pain in same way as a human do feel….wound, cuts, fracture hurts them exactly in same amount as in case of a human…

But still we humans have a benefit that we can talk we can share our problems and can find solution as per that but an animal they can do nothing else than bearing the pain and wait for the nature to heel them up ……

Hence its OTHERS they have to depend on for their complete cure!!!

P.S - Hope he will get well soon…                        

Does every relationship need a name????

In life we are surrounded with so many relationships - daughter/son, husband/wife, mom/dad, best friend/friend, lover/boyfriend etc. etc., we all hold more than one label from these to name our relationships and to give it a tag.

But is it always necessary to give names to every relation we hold in our life? Apart from mom/dad, sisters/brothers we hold many relationships in this world which really do not need any particular name to certify it and prove how true & pure the relation is…

Foundation of any relationship is based on trust, thoughtfulness and honesty, which actually leads the relationship to last for a long time. Staying with a person for long time, usually make us to share our happiness as well as despondency with that person because of the bonding shared by them. Therefore we need affection and understanding to preserve any relationship not a tag.

But most of us try to name that particular relationship, even before making its base strong. Maximum time what I find is that  after meeting a person if anyone likes him or her and spent good times together, go for movies, weekend out etc. from the next day they will address themselves as BFF… or if liking  takes place between a boy and girl they will call it as love and will address themselves as lovers…...

And maybe that’s the reason why ending up of relationship has increased now a day…..Breaking of any relation is as easy as making a new relationship for us. It’s only because we are more busy in tagging our relationships than making its base strong. And it’s hard to carry on with a fragile relationship only with a name.

I know it sound silly for many of you, but don’t you guys feel the same??? If the bond between two is strong and the relationship is full of trust n mutual understanding then it do not seek for any name….the identity of such relationship will be only by its strong base and long last.. isn't it?

Unskilled Beginning……..

Finally, I also decided to create my own blog, and am not that much adapted in writing for blogs. Though I do pen down every feeling of mine but now through this blog I can express my feelings and share my views with you all... Hope this blogging journey will be beautiful and memorable… I hope ill will be accepted by the bloggers n readers as well.

For now only this much, will be back soon.