Technology is Worsening Our Grammar

As we progress in this era of rapid digital advancement, I've noticed an unsettling trend.  Many people are taking more and more short cuts in their grammar, and ignoring the proper etiquette and procedures on how to go about dictating their views.  Take for example the phenomenology surrounding text messaging.  More and more people use texting as their primary sources of communication, and take short cuts.  For example, in a classroom setting where one has to be discreet, the messages relayed are done in a succinct and swift manner, lest the offensive texter is noticed and reprimanded.  Therefore, acronyms and using shortened lingo is a must.  I believe that this is giving a skewed sense of spelling.  I have heard my peers use the "term" LOL in common place conversations without a hint of sarcasm.  And by the way, no one ever hardly is actually laughing out loud.  Its the nouveau version of our generic "haha" and one letter shorter.

Back in the eighties, National Geographic television ruled the ratings, and now in the year 2012, we are inundated with mindless and forgettable rubbish.  In the process of keeping up with our technology, we have also become lazy, creating shortcuts to get by with all the seemingly necessary multi-tasking.  On the show Real World, one of the main characters became a viral sensation after she said "it was not funny." Thanks to youtube, she will never get to live that down.  Also, newscasters and screen personalities pepper their language with expletives, which at one point would be a big taboo, but now creates a sensationalized sense of sick pleasure seeing others mistakes.  Other people's downfalls are something that we as a society relish in because it tends to make us forget and forgive our own personal downfalls and shortcomings.

We are completely saturated with the media presence and willingness to constantly communicate with ourselves thanks to the advanced technologies that are permeating our lives.  Because of this, to compensate, we have truncated some aspects of our lifestyle in order to accommodate this need to be constantly connected.  In email, text messages, websites and everyday language, we as a whole have become more carelessly errant in our rush to get the message across, communicate while playing a game, texting while driving, this is now our norm, and we aren't  seeing/caring that the beauty of proper diction and spelling is fading from our priorities.

This is the Real World clip where she uttered her classic statement.

Also,
damnyouautocorrect is a rather humorous site that thats screen shots of people with miscommunicated textual conversations due to iphone's auto correcting system.

And then there is the I can Has Cheezburger, the mini empire that was built upon the success of cleverly and misspelled captions on crazy cat photos...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/technology/internet/14burger.html