How has cultural reality changed the way we use language?

It is a fact that, the way we use language has evolved through times, especially with the movement to the information age. Thus, we have changed our ways of communication, because our cultural reality has been changing. We have developed a number of new and different media to express what we want to say.

First, with the age of information most of people have had access to the new technological devices which have simplified their social lives. For example, with the invention of internet, we do not have to spend so much time writing a letter, neither waiting for a response, because just sending an e-mail we can have an answer instantaneously. In other words, now communication is not a matter of distance.

Then, with the creations of technological devices we have modified the way we speak to each other. For instance, every time with the use of chat we tend to cut the words and use a lot of slang in order to make the “conversation” flows. But, do you thing it opens our cultural reality, or in some way, do these devices make it more closed?

Indeed, the different communicational changes in our cultural reality have advantages and disadvantages as well. Every time communication is being more impersonal; we have replaced the real communication and social interaction with artificial ways of interacting and expressing ourselves. For example, speaking on the phone, sending an e-mail, and chatting has changed the way we see communication, because we have forgotten about face to face interaction.