When the internet became popular, different social media has come out bundled with speculations that it would change the way students write and speak, Social Media continues to persuade students to use it because of some of it’s cool features, like you can chat with your friends around the globe, you can really be more social with friends, and play their games anywhere you want. It would be unfair to single Social Media out for criticism because there is no assurance if it has positive or negative effect on students. A powerful tool, Technology at it is best, Social Media takes advantage on students because they are versatile, for a moment they want it because of their needs, or it is what they want. Students want instant communication and entertainment, that’s why many students are affected by this notion.
In some Social Media settings there’s no limitation, whether you want to elaborate further or just make it shorter, it is your choice, in short they have freedom to abbreviate or shorten they word of choice to emphasize what they are pointing out. A student uses “LOL”, “TTYL” and any other acronym. Students adapt to this easily, when they are chatting with their friends on facebook and they encounter this odd word, they would recognize it easily, it is like they know without their brain processing it. Friends play a big part on this. Because they acquire this new word they would rather use it to their friends also and the cycle repeats again. That’s basically how the world travels, and students are the one of its carrier.
Since we know that twitter has a 140 character limitation, students who use it might have difficulty of trying to convey what their message has for its reader, but this will make students think of other way to make their work more compact in a sense that everybody who read it can understand its meaning. “Who says you must have full sentences or paragraphs of text to make an impact or to drive people to action?”(Sherman, 2010). Indeed what he said was right, students nowadays adapt this skill and change the way they write in to more conducive and productive way that not only whey can be benefited from it even us the reader. ”The real revolution was not the printing press itself it was when everyone learn to read and write” (Mayfield, 2009). Mayfield is trying to emphasize that when something is “in” it is not because many people “use” it, it is because many people “know how to use it”. and Social Media is one and it is growing and it is changing the way we speak, do you experience something that even without speaking through your mouth and telling what is your name someone will recognize who you are, one reason is because of the personal things that you tell the world through internet, well they can basically search for your name and redirect to your blog, or to your wall in facebook where they can see information about you, Social Media can affect the way you communicate to others, but still this is not new to us because at the first place we are the one who posted it there thinking and hoping that it will not to any harm to us.
Social Media is something that we must learn before we can use it; it is not a talent that if you want to do it you will do it not everybody has the knowledge to use such thing that’s why students are thought how to use our resources which is readily available, it is the Information Technology. One social networking site has triumph over the students because of its popularity and everybody is basically using it nowadays, Facebook. It has benefits “Spend more time indoors, Facebook can keep your personal information, Giving away information to companies, Student get lower grades, Damages real life socialization, Get addicted not only to games but also the web. And it will possibly destroy how you live.”(Fung, 2011). Despite of its cost social media is use by students to share and gather information, they can go to an online discussion and enhance their knowledge, maybe social media don’t just change the ways students think, but it is helping them enhance their writing to be more concise and straightforward, improve their speech because of some insight s from others that they get from the online discussions.
References
Fung, NA. (2011, February 28). Why are people addicted to social networking sites like Facebook? (Project). Retrieved from http://fungslearningblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-are-people-addicted-to-social.html
Mayfield, A. (2009, July 16). WOMMA: Do You Speak Social?. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/amayfield/womma-do-you-speak-social
Shermon, Aliza. (2010, April 28). How Social Media Is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write. Retrieved from http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-social-media-is-affecting-the-way-we-speak-and-write/
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