Technology has definitely evolved our language over the past few years. Students are speaking an entirely different language than what is familiar to some teachers and their parents. For example, you may hear students say "friended" which is not a word in the dictionary but due to the new social networking website known as Facebook, "friended" has become a word used daily by its users. I truely believe that it won't be long until "friended" and "defriended" are added to the dictionary. When I tell my sister, I friended someone on Facebook, she knows exactly what I am talking about; my mother on the other hand looks at us like we are speaking an entirely different language and she does not know what we are saying. To her, we are speaking a different language. It is the new tech language.
The ways in which we communicate are very different. My mom will call her friends or family up and talk on the phone for hours because they might not have talked in a week. My friends and I are in constant contact and technology has made that very easy. It is rare that I will spend hours on the phone with my friends. However, I will constantly text them throughout the day or email them to say hi or send them a comment on Facebook. I believe technology has made it very easy to stay in touch with people. Especially with today's society where everyone is constantly on the go, the one thing everyone always has with them is their cell phone and it is very easy to contact anyone, anywhere, anytime with cell phones. We can be in constant connection and communication with our families and friends. I think that is a major advantage of the technology advances we have made in the last few years.
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