Are Digital Media Changing Language?

1.) "Social networking sites offer additional forms of control. People exercise control in the way they design their pages: Staged photographs, exaggerated profiles, and padded friends lists enable online users to manipulate how others see them. In the words of one undergraduate, her Facebook page is "me on my best day.""




I completely agree with the above statement. Facebook allows people to exaggerate their lives most of the time to make them look better to his or her viewers. I hardly ever log in to find people beating themselves up for something. I do find that a lot of the time people are judging others ideas and beliefs on certain topics. Instead of judging what other people are doing, I think self reflection on an individuals own ideas and beliefs should be happening. "Me on my best day" is a very accurate statement on social networking.


2.) " Whatever the benefits of digital media, it is destroying the ability of young people to construct the basic unit of the English Language...the sentence."


The above opinion is understandable but I don't think its digital media that keeps young people unable to construct a sentence properly. Language is vital for any culture to survive and we need to be more concerned with adapting to how young people are thinking and responding to our language to make sure it does survive. A huge factor in survival is the ability to adapt.