This profile addresses the delicate issue of how Instant messaging is affecting the young students language. Given the diversions offered by Web surfing and messaging, and the ephemeral subject matter of much Internet writing, many of those literary encounters are superficial at best (Iyengar; Bauerlein, 2007). An example of this issue in society is when students, whose social life can rely as much these days on text communication as spoken word, say that they use instant-messaging shorthand without thinking about it (Jennifer, 2005).
The IT system involved with this issue is when students use MSN mmessenger to chat, while using other aplications such as microsoft word to type their school work. With the slang use of words on MSN messenger, students language starts to adapt to the abbreviation they use such as the number 2, instead of spelling it out (two). This IT system is important to society because it is a very fast and efficient way of communication, for long periods of time.
Society is affected by this IT in positive and negative ways. A positive social or ethical effect related to the IT system is that it allows the people from around the world to easily communicate for free. A negative social effect relates to the IT system is that it’s being over used, and it affects the students use of language. Students will gradually forget the proper use of the English language and more slang word will gradually be added to the dictionary. Bling, a slang word usually used in internet talk was recently added into the dictionary.
