Worst Misspelled Words on Twitter

 

 

Knowing who you’re writing for and why you’re writing are crucial factors in writing that is something that almost everyone knows. Perhaps for some people these elements have been enhanced through blogging, or socializing online; although in regards to our writing skills the role that technology played is mostly negative.

Now a day the majority communicate through technology and as stated in the article a lot of socializing takes place online and involves text. However, this does not mean that people are improving their writing skills; on the other hand it has done the opposite. People usually do not worry about proper paragraph structure, grammar or spelling and a lot of abbreviations are used when communicating online or texting, an example of this can be seen with the following image from this site 10 Best (Worst) Misspelled Words on Twitter

 

 

Unfortunately technology crippled us and made us dependent; today a lot of people use spelling checkers when writing an email or a paper in order to avoid making spelling mistakes, usually it helps lower the rate of errors at the moment but we frequently fail to see the latent impact of the constant use of these tools on our writing skills. For instance, today many people struggle when they are asked to write a message or answer a question with a pen and paper, since they make a lot of mistakes; this is due to the fact that they are not used to writing without their technological devices.

Even though it might be true what Lunsford suggests when saying that “young people today write far more than any generation before”, unfortunately  the quality of writing is not the best because abbreviations are used constantly, spelling mistakes are made and  proper paragraph structure are rarely seen when communicating online, thus our writing skills have been impacted negatively.