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Social media has their own list of vocabulary, examples include avatar, trolling, tweeting and  wikis (http://www.saltywaffle.com/social-media-vocabulary/.) Internet memes are also used in our social media language, such as LOLCATS, epic FAIL which derived the popular Fail blog website.

 

Neologism are used nowadays, examples include google, facebook, twitter. They can be used as a noun or verb depending on the situation (http://www.blueglass.com/blog/retweet-or-retweet-the-grammar-of-social-media/). Google has become the default search provider for the majority of users, therefore on the internet, to google for something would be understood to be searching for something.

 

Chat/TXT language is also rampant in our daily use. They include abbreviations, the ones I frequently use being, LOL (laugh out loud), BRB (be right back), TTYL (talk to you later) and c u ltr/l8r (see you later) (http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html).

Emoticons are used to describe the particular mood. The ones that I use the most often include the famous smiley face :), tongue sticking out :P (http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html). Some emoticons can be used to describe a particular action, eg *hugs or <hugs> which implies that you are giving the other person a virtual hug.

 

 

The reason for many people using "social media" language is that it helps get across what they want to say with less words and effort as compared to a properly structured sentence. As time goes on, there would be new upcoming neologisms, emoticons, vocabulary and grammar.