Digital Media is changing language

Are digital media changing language?


Quote: It's natural for languages to evolve. But what should really concern us is the way computers and mobile phones are changing our attitudes toward language.
Response:I think that digital media is changing the way we communicate with others for various reasons. The first reason being cell phones; they are very helpful in many situations, but they can also be harmful. People are so used to ‘lingo’ that cell phones have brought, that it is effecting the way people talk and write. For example, kids in schools have been using abbreviations for words, which is a big change from before cell phones were used frequently. In the article, it says that they have been doing studies in which finding out that children know when to use the right context when they need to; but being around other people I can tell the difference between the lingo and the way people used to speak.