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.
