In my opinion, it’s not the internet causing the problem as it is social media. I doubt many spend any time on the internet. I spend a lot of time on the internet but I am reading news items and FR. If they’re on the internet, what are they reading? Certainly not news. Well, perhaps there is something there for them that I’m not aware of and I prefer it that way, I guess!
They’re on their phones texting for the most part and have learned that they don’t need to know how to compose or even read a proper sentence. Didn’t anyone with a brain see this coming?
Yeah; it’s social media. Not the Internet.
We acquired the internet when I was ten, and English was always something I excelled in. Actually, I’m good with language in general. I picked up Spanish easily growing up, and find no issues learning Latin-based languages, including biomedical terminology, which is simply Latin.
I also have internet-based hobbies which heavily involve writing, and one in particular I began when I was about thirteen. Text-typing, turn-based RPG’s, not dissimilar from D&D without dice, which basically amounts to story-writing with multiple authors assuming the roles of, usually multiple, characters. It’s really very fun. Unfortunately, the platforms we used to accomplish this such as AIM, ICQ, and other instant messaging applications no longer exist. I’m currently using an altered version of ICQ (”IcyQue”, or ICQ (WIM) ) through Pidgin, but will probably wind up paying the fee to use IRC so that Pidgin has full function. Our current IcyQue doesn’t allow for text alteration before sending.
Yep. I attribute many of the issues had nowadays to social media as well. Everyone thinks and responds in one-sentence blurbs without any grammar or punctuation, then cannot understand why they can’t hack it in jobs which require the ability to effectively communicate.
I do a lot of writing and reading online, and no longer use social media. I prefer not using it, honestly. Though I think that’s mostly because I don’t really give a sh!t what everyone else is doing.
I would agree with this statement. This is due to the influence of social media on the lives of these young people. I spent my young adulthood on the internet, but it wasn’t on facebook, or texting, it was on sites like free-republic, or writing articles on my own website. But even the folks I spend time with on social media are very articulate (maybe that’s ‘cause they are all older than 40 haha). The Internet is one of the greatest communication devices ever, and I have learned so much by it. If I recall, people said the same thing about books (that it was causing negative effects on society) when they were invented as well.