Question

   Social media, such as Twitter, Face Book, Instagram, using technology   such as home based and hand held computers, smartphones, have become the norm in our society. Explain what linguistic and social skills are possibly being used less in our society and what can be done to reverse the trend, while still enjoying the benefits of these technologies?

Answer 1

Linguistic skills - since we can now socialize with a touch and as per our convinience sitting at our homes through various platforms like facebook , twitter etc , we tend to use slang language while having a conversation with others . For example writing GM for good morning , GN for good night , TC for take care etc . These slangs are created by us inly just to ease our communicationprocess. So that we dont have to write much we use these short words to convey our messages . So linguistic skills are used less while conversing online .

Social skills - now since we can talk to others through these medium we tend to always use these sources for all communication . People prefet to send a message to wish happy birthday rather than actually calling or meeting and wihing . Obviously there is a great impact on a person’s life now due to these onlie portals .

We should not stop going out . We should be meeting people face toface rather than just sitting and chatting . This will help us enhance the skills of communication and confidence also.