Social media have been changing the individuals' method for living in many ways especially in the objects linked to the communication domain, knowledge, and education. It means also suggests one of the necessities of human life will be achieved; to communicate and interact with other beings. Therefore, In the era of globalization, many people use social media around the world as a significant toll of their lives, but it influences changing the language that we communicate with others. In my opinion, social media have positive and negative effects on language.
There are many positive effects that social media changing language when people need to communicate with each other such as easy communication. So, social media often could be helpful, and give a positive value to language. For example, when we use a conversation in the tool’s social media, we have had many new words added to the language dictionary for doing a well understanding and could identify a better quickly responding to get clear feedback. As consequently, many people using this kind of communication to try to create a shorts way to communicate with each other such as abbreviations, emoticons, pictures, symbols, specific vocabulary, and meaning. In addition, to easily make communication many people use social media as a tool to Learn with Correcting mistakes that online conversation gives help when the audience you are talking to correct when you misspell one word, or you write that incorrectly. This method going to be help learning faster from mistakes and recorrected. Even though many people Agree they understand other’s emotions since of the pictorial use of language, but some of them don’t understand it depend on the difference of the generation. For example, the generation of 21centry could use and understand the kind of language coming from the social media effect on language nor other generations could not. As a result, the positive effect of social media on the changing language could be given a value to more making easier the tongue and ever to contribute to development.
Nevertheless, there are many negative effects that social media changing language when people need to communicate with each other’s such as people most of the time deformed words and deviation from the mother tongue. Moreover, speakers make mistakes when they use slang and acronyms, and they use shorten some words. Also, many people deformed words when they Use of incorrect grammar and expression, demonstrating thoughts more in pictures than in words or use any abbreviations. As consequently, we are living in a period in which people doing everything quickly. No one has the time to use language correctly with correct structure in this century. Then, we are living in a period in which people doing everything quickly. Nobody has time to use language with complete thought and grammar since we are living in a period in which people trying to simplify things. For example, Instagram and Facebook users use to shorten words like #hashtags. There are no complete thoughts, meaning and not all people understand the word. As a result, the language will lose its roots, Elderly people cannot understand this kind of communication and users become lazy in the correct use of this kind of language.
In my view, the negative effects that social media has on the language are more than the positive effects. This is means that language becomes to change grammatically, speaking changes in a rapid way and the social media domain is not a real world. For example, when people using a word becomes a trend on social media all users try to use that, but this does not help the language because not all trendy words are used in a correct way. Also, when new words are used on social media, the existing language is used less. As a result, the negative effects that social media changing language push to create obstacles to communicate, become poorer in vocabulary, and have a possibility to return to communication through symbols.
In conclusion, social media has many positive and negative effects on language, but negative effects are more than positive since language has some structure and procedure that must be respected if we need to protect the language. I propose to link the language with the local culture to more understanding the roots of language and protect the tongue.
* Researcher in Political Science\ Pennsylvania; United States
The effect of social media on the language
By: Dr. Thami Fadil
Social media have been changing the individuals' method for living in many ways especially in the objects linked to the communication domain, knowledge, and education. It means also suggests one of the necessities of human life will be achieved; to communicate and interact with other beings. Therefore, In the era of globalization, many people use social media around the world as a significant toll of their lives, but it influences changing the language that we communicate with others. In my opinion, social media have positive and negative effects on language.
There are many positive effects that social media changing language when people need to communicate with each other such as easy communication. So, social media often could be helpful, and give a positive value to language. For example, when we use a conversation in the tool’s social media, we have had many new words added to the language dictionary for doing a well understanding and could identify a better quickly responding to get clear feedback. As consequently, many people using this kind of communication to try to create a shorts way to communicate with each other such as abbreviations, emoticons, pictures, symbols, specific vocabulary, and meaning. In addition, to easily make communication many people use social media as a tool to Learn with Correcting mistakes that online conversation gives help when the audience you are talking to correct when you misspell one word, or you write that incorrectly. This method going to be help learning faster from mistakes and recorrected. Even though many people Agree they understand other’s emotions since of the pictorial use of language, but some of them don’t understand it depend on the difference of the generation. For example, the generation of 21centry could use and understand the kind of language coming from the social media effect on language nor other generations could not. As a result, the positive effect of social media on the changing language could be given a value to more making easier the tongue and ever to contribute to development.
Nevertheless, there are many negative effects that social media changing language when people need to communicate with each other’s such as people most of the time deformed words and deviation from the mother tongue. Moreover, speakers make mistakes when they use slang and acronyms, and they use shorten some words. Also, many people deformed words when they Use of incorrect grammar and expression, demonstrating thoughts more in pictures than in words or use any abbreviations. As consequently, we are living in a period in which people doing everything quickly. No one has the time to use language correctly with correct structure in this century. Then, we are living in a period in which people doing everything quickly. Nobody has time to use language with complete thought and grammar since we are living in a period in which people trying to simplify things. For example, Instagram and Facebook users use to shorten words like #hashtags. There are no complete thoughts, meaning and not all people understand the word. As a result, the language will lose its roots, Elderly people cannot understand this kind of communication and users become lazy in the correct use of this kind of language.
In my view, the negative effects that social media has on the language are more than the positive effects. This is means that language becomes to change grammatically, speaking changes in a rapid way and the social media domain is not a real world. For example, when people using a word becomes a trend on social media all users try to use that, but this does not help the language because not all trendy words are used in a correct way. Also, when new words are used on social media, the existing language is used less. As a result, the negative effects that social media changing language push to create obstacles to communicate, become poorer in vocabulary, and have a possibility to return to communication through symbols.
In conclusion, social media has many positive and negative effects on language, but negative effects are more than positive since language has some structure and procedure that must be respected if we need to protect the language. I propose to link the language with the local culture to more understanding the roots of language and protect the tongue.
* Researcher in Political Science\ Pennsylvania; United States
