Blog Post #4

1.) How do you think the rise of social networking affects language use?
The rise of social networking affects languages because no one reads newspapers, magazines, or books everyone reads their news by some kind of technology, wheather it be through a computer, a phone, or a television. Many people chose to get their news through the web because then they don't have to pay for a magazine or a newspaper. Getting information and news from your technological device saves you money and it is always at your convenience. Pretty soon people talking face to face will become extinct everything will be computerized and no one will be able to actually speak to someone without communicating with them through technology. There are so many new sites out such as facebook, blogging, and twitter, and a few years back we had myspace.

2.) Does the spread of the Internet and other technologies create a larger need for English knowledge around the world, or reduce its necessity?

I think that the spread of Internet and other technologies reduce English knowledge around the world because with the internet today and the phone devices that we have you can do anything at the snap of a finger. There are so many websites you can go on to get the information that you need and our phones have so many different kind of apps to help us discover what we need.