The language of new media helps and hurts communication. Because of the abbreviations used on the internet and in text messages, we can get communicate much faster than we could in the past few decades. After big disasters and other events, journalists publish articles online as soon as they can, and people tweet about what's going on. It has become harder for governments to keep things covered up, because people are able to communicate with the entire world just by clicking a button. News reports online are often direct, and get the point across quickly.
However, especially with websites like twitter, people don't have a lot of space to write, so the shortened messages can leave out vital information. Also, new media has made some people worse at writing. People don't speed a lot of time making sure what they're writing on social networking sites is free of mistakes. If you misspell something or use the wrong "your" or "then", people will still know what you're saying. As long as people know when and when not to use the internet abbreviations, and are able to write formally when needed, language will not be corrupted.
I could not agree more Hannah. Something else to even add to that is that with people making more mistakes and leaving out vital information, those that don't regularaly frequent facebook and twitter are left in the dark about vital information and lose a form of communication that is rapidly becoming popular. Even more so, since everyone writes differently and leaves different things out, no one tweet or post is written the same way, and depending on what he/she leaves out, the tweet or post itself could be compleaty not understandble to someone else.
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