Social Media Influence On Language

In modern society, technology plays an important role in people’s lives. People are used to using social media to communicate with each other, in order to express their ideas in more convenient way. The use of verbal and written language seems to be less and less, especially for many teenagers, their excessive use of social media leads the degradation of their verbal and written language ability and they even don't want to talk with their parents when they stay at home. In 2009，UNESCO statistics show that 97% of the world population only use 4% of the language, “if nothing is done, half of 6000 plus languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century. If many languages become extinct, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages. ” However, people haven't really pay attention on this issue and still very rely on social media and electronic devices. In this case, it is hard to protect the native languages, let alone to protect some endangered languages. So in order to save human languages, what should people do to protect them? Before taking actions, people should understand to what extent that social media affect people using their languages, and how? Further elaboration and analysis will be showed in this paper.

Analysis of the issues
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Here are some actions.

1. Make a mindful tech assessment.
Start tracking how much you use social media/the internet/your phone. When you've realized that you spend a total of 3 hours on social media sites (like Facebook/Instagram), aim to cut the usage to 90 minutes.

2. Ask human beings for directions, help, advice,