Text speak saves time and shortens text length. In preparation and sending messages it reduces costs.... Some of the negative aspects of text speak are that.... Whether text speak eventually becomes the standard.... Over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a major change in the way people communicate to each other due to the development of the internet. Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more.
According to one article in Science magazine, we're not necessarily losing our ability to remember things. Rather, the internet is changing how we remember things. Certain types of memory are improving as well, when the brain reroutes how we recall information, it develops different types of memory capabilities. Also, multitasking sometimes makes your memory worse as well. In other words, as we get older, we have a harder time with distractions online with the Internet, Facebook, and such.
The only time a majority of people use it is if their iPod or music enabled cell phone has died. And the fact that the internet makes almost everything available at one’s fingertips, going outside is practically archaic. And using a phone to call someone? One would almost be shocked if someone had a charge on their cell phone bill for making too many phone calls. “Now, we can logon to our favorite Internet chat client or call her on our Internet phone and talk to mom everyday” (nationalbusiness.org) The technology that people have within their grasp has completely changed the way the world works.
Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" explores the social and cognitive effects of the internet on the twenty first century. By his interpretation, the internet has had a positive impact on civilization, especially academia as "research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes" (para. 3). The internet also serves as a boon to literacy rates as "we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s" as more people choose to use the text based internet.
A Changing World One of the main assertions of The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains, by Nicholas Carr, is that the Internet is changing the way that people are reading. Carr describes how he used to read before he started spending a lot of time on the Internet. He used to be able to read in great depth and get lost in the pages of a book. Now, Carr says after using the Net for quite some time, he is hardly able to read more than a few pages without getting distracted or bored. As Carr proves throughout his book, the brain is able to be altered and changed.
During the last decade, the Internet enriched our social lives and our civic connections. People use e-mail, on-line chat rooms and instant messages to communicate with each other. Even adolescents can use the Internet as the same as the older people. But, heavy use of the Net can bring some bad consequences to the adolescents more than what they do on adults. Brent Staples, in “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace” (2004) pointed out the consequences of adolescents cruising the Net.
Our culture is changing; every day more people utilize cybernetic ways to communicate which reduces the quality of our interaction. On her essay, “Sex, Lies and Conversation”, Deborah Tannen points out that intimacy is the base of relationships, but how can intimacy exist if our communication levels these days do not even involve having a face to face conversation. Since the Internet and computers became more affordable, more people are becoming part of the cybernetic world. According to Wikipedia, there are over 500 million users on the most popular social networking websites, more than half of them are under 25. This means that most of the young members of our society are growing accustomed to a different kind of communication, perhaps one of less quality.
CIS111-Issue Analysis Dr. Joanna Cattafesta University Of Kentucky It is averaged that over 80% of teenagers are on social media regularly. Between cell phone use and computer technology developing, younger generations are becoming more apt to the use of technology. “Teenagers in particular use media for many purposes, including entertainment and distraction, but also exploration of significant developmental issues pertaining to curiosity, education, popularity, identity, gender roles, and sexuality”(Reaves, 2011). The media has become a problem in our day and age by brainwashing teenagers and giving them an unrealistic view on life. We live in a society and culture that values an individual’s beauty and thinness.
For example Facebook has brought friendships from the past back together and the increased speed that news spreads (Dawn). So far, only about 2 billion of the world’s population has connected to social media websites (Dawn). Social changed the way I lived by, the way interact with my friends. Before social media, I didn’t always reach out to my friends seeing what was going on in their lives. I felt that I was missing out on some important events that were going on.
Thompson suggests that Twitter is a very useful tool. “…I’m more knowledgeable about the details in her life, than the lives of my two sisters in Canada, who I talk to only once every month or so” (Thompson, 2011). The author argues that social media websites like Facebook have made it possible to quickly see and share photos as well as be updated on what someone is doing or how they are feeling in an instant. In the beginning Facebook was primitive and the concerns about privacy were abundant which made a lot of Facebook users feel uneasy. Zuckerberg made changes to modernize Facebook by creating a News Feed which gave us easier access to what people were doing.