MyFaceSpace: Enough Already
Social networking sites are all the rage. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and others are everywhere you go, but they are surely not an original innovation. Social networking is extremely old and was formerly known as conversation. Some of you may still practice this dying art.
The younger you are, the less polished your speaking skills are. It’s a generational thing. My teenage son and his girlfriend will sit in the same room and text back and forth. What happened to talking? And because it takes longer to type than talk, SNS and texting have ruined the grammar skills of an entire generation.
Wat r u doing 2da?
Im cing dat nu muv.
What? Why can’t you just type: what are you doing today or I’m seeing that new movie?
This is how people currently type and talk. Speech and written language follow similar lines and we are currently dumbing down our communication patterns for the sake of brevity.
As for the ability for me to keep up with long lost friends and relatives, I say keep it. There are a few instances where I have ran into someone on a SNS and was glad. For the most part, however, I stopped socializing with those people for a reason. It’s a great way to keep up with changes in the situation or location of people you know, but it should be used as a tool to interact with them in a more personal way.
Understandably, it’s easy to have ambiguous feelings about the whole situation. I mean, as soon as I finish this sentence, I’m posting a link to this blog on facebook.
Shane
