With the advent of technological innovations that have evolved exponentially in the last decade or two, the world has been thrust into an era of virtual and mechanical prowess. Along with this revolution in the sciences and computing, we, as humans, have created wonderful technologies, and made life-changing discoveries.
However, with the findings of medicinal, industrial, and virtual ideas that have propelled society into this “Technological Revolution”, there has also emerged a new system of communication and language in the advent of Social Media.
This sub level of virtual/internet innovation has been a point of controversy as many of its critics delineate its “apparent” negative effects that persist of a user’s constant desire to text, tweet, update, notify whatever is on their minds.
Critics mention how it is decreasing social interactions, reducing proper uses of grammar, causing communication to decrease, and overall seem to state how social media has caused the downfall of social interaction and has been especially harmful to the overall use of language.
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In a more general sense language has been defined as the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication and many understand language to be a permanent entity. Critics have come to the conclusion that social media has bred a generation of linguistic rebels inventing new terms such as “troll”, or “hashtag”, using acronyms such as “omg” or “lol”. They believe this goes against “proper” language and castigate those who allow such blasphemous contemporary uses of language.
Despite these seemingly “justifiable” reasons for chastising the introduction of social media, the critics are far from the truth. Beginning with the basics, many believe that with the changes that are occurring within societal language in this point in time are unprecedented and signify a loss of culture and a deterioration in overall intelligence of those unwilling to “maintain a conversation of more than three letters”.
They seem to advocate this pre-21st century ideal that things inherent to society, like language, should never be touched or even considered for change. In doing so, they limit their understanding of the fact that social media is not simply a novel invention made in order to dull the minds of its users. They are unable to grasp the simple belief that social media, like language is simply a system of communication, used to express, to respond, to interact.
They seem to only consider that social media has no business altering and affecting something so “intangible” as language. They seem to think that despite living in the midst of such a technological revolution their language cannot be affected by such devices as texting, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, where all one supposedly does is wait for messages, notifications, tweets, or videos.
Social media critics seem to think that with the introduction of new terms and acronyms that the terms are a regression on the concepts of the English language. Yet with the evolution of symbols like “#”, previously known as a number or pound symbol, which now has the title of “hashtag”, we are able to witness the corresponding evolution of a society with a stronger focus on the virtual and technological.
The Term Paper on Effects of Social Media
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As I have previously mentioned, language is merely a means of communication from person to person, community to community and has played a large part in the development of the human race as a whole.
For those quibbling over how social media has decreased the amount of social interaction between person and person, they seem to misunderstand the overall purpose of such applications of Facebook and Twitter, which is simply to connect the majority of its users so that they may either express their opinions, or interact with others, or discover similar interests with others, or meet new people and friends.
Those that advocate the belief that communication between peers has deteriorated due to the creation of social media, may only be looking at the fact that smart-phones and other mobile devices have begun to appear ubiquitously throughout their lives.
Although there may be times where those who are using social media seem to be firmly focused upon their devices, they are simply attempting to collaborate in a highly efficient and speedy way of communicating with their friends and followers.
Those that criticize the effects of social media tend to bring up the detail that with the invention of smart-phones, coupled with the applications of Twitter, Facebook, etc., that they seem to have hypnotized the users into a trance of non-communication and indifference towards interaction. They fail to understand that through these devices, society is connecting at a pace and frequency rivaled by no other period of human communication.
We seem to misinterpret social media as a mind-numbing activity that prevents active participation within society. We seem to believe that social media is harmful in its influence upon the behaviors of its users. We seem to be afraid of its long-term effects on our language and our lifestyle. However, we are simply in the midst of a shift in thought and nature signaled by the presence of social media, technology, and an increasing sense of our position in the world.
Not only do these devices allow us to communicate from house to house, or from state to state, or from country to country, they also allow an easy way to express our innovative beliefs and give us opportunities to success not found in any other system of society.
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They may argue that our language has also been effected, but language is malleable, it is a force that can be altered, and we are currently experiencing firsthand the effects a revolution can produce on something so intangible as language. And to those who still believe social media is a deteriorating force to its users, there is only one thing to say.
Lol.