How social media is changing language. Is it alarming?

Abstract

Language is an evolving thing. It’s naive to think that the language of social media isn’t having
an effect on the way we use English in day-to-day life. It’s more appropriate to consider just how
much of an effect it’s having on the way we communicate.What social media has done is enable
us to communicate with a much larger number of people on a global scale in a way that we only
really used to be able to do on a local level. This is great when it means we’re keeping
friendships alive over great distances, but it’s also increasing the demands placed on an
individual to keep a much larger number of relationships going simultaneously. For example, the
average number of friends a person has on Facebook in the UK is around 300 – even if you’re
only actually really friends with, say, 10% of that number that’s still 30 friendships to be
maintaining. The result is an ever-increasing speed of communication. The present paper is a
study of social media and its impact on language and also suggests some technological measures
for academic purpose. Social media no doubt, contracted the distances, make universe closer but
that does not mean at all that we can play with the roots and shape of any language. The paper
suggests some academic and creative purpose of social media too.