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WEB-BASED SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND ITS INFLUENCE O THE
LANGUAGE
Ruziyeva Nilufar Xafizovna
a Lecturer, PhD Department of Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages,
Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute
Nowadays, we have been witnessing the evolution of cyberspace for various
types of web-based social communication media which offer more advanced and
convenient ways for users to engage in both domestic and international
communication. We are now familiar with the use of technologies of the second
generation web-based services which are known as Web 2.0. Web 2.0 provides a
highly dynamic, flexible, and adaptable space that allows anyone to create and share
information online with the principle of collaboration, conversation, and interaction
(Coombs, 2007). It encompasses a wide range of applications and tools including
Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Blog, Wiki, Podcast/streaming video and audio
content, Instant Messaging (IM) like WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat, Social
Bookmarking/ Tagging, and Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook,
Twitter, and MySpace. Collectively, these Web 2.0 applications are commonly
referred to as social media. Today, much of the buzz in the online world is about
social networking sites (SNS). Beside to connect with people across great distances,
SNS has been a platform for users to share ideas, express their feelings, or share their
online or real-life world activities and events with other users by posting contents.
Users can share contents in any forms such as textual, auditory, visual such as photos
and videos, and even multimedia based since social media involve a high level of
multimodality. The use of any types of SNS such as video sharing site like YouTube
and BuzzFeed, community sites like Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, photo sharing
sites such as Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest, tagging/sharing sites like del.ilcio.us,
digg, and LinkedIn has made a strong impact among internet users around the world.
Being widely connected as well as having free space to express themselves is the
main reason people are attracted to use SNS when they surfer on the internet.
Due to the easy access to the internet, social media has become a part of
people’s lifestyle. Some people tend to use social media tools heavily on their daily
basis. However, there are still some others who prefer keeping distance from social
media. Qualman (2009) classifies motives of using and not using social media like
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Facebook and Twitter into two categories as preventative behavior and braggadocio
behavior.
People with preventative behavior are individuals who are always mindful in
posting status, uploading photos or those who just simply do not use social media at
all because they do not see the benefits. This preference is mostly to maintain their
self-image because they want to keep their personal life personal or they probably
want to hide their dark sides. Mass transparency of social media, which makes
everything one does can be seen by the whole world, can affect a person’s image.
Besides, they might be worried if social media will violate their privacy as personal
space. On the contrary to preventive behavior, braggadocian behavior refers to the
type of people who updates status or posts something on his social media account
often or regularly.
This type of people will manage to do things that contribute to his existence in
social media. There are several motives of people with braggadocian behavior. The
first motive is altruism. An altruistic person is an individual who is concerned with
the needs of others over his personal needs. He tends to always help other people in
anyways even if he has to sacrifice his own needs for the good of others. Through
social media, these people may share information—that they believe useful—with
other social networks users, assuming that the information somehow would be
beneficial and come in handy when needed. However, altruistic users often do not
know exactly for whom the information can be useful or whether the information is
valid and accountable but they still share it anyway. Then, the second motive is
hedonism. People with hedonistic behavior live and behave in the pursuit of one main
goal, which is achieving pleasure. Everyone can find their pleasure in different
things; it can be in getting good grades, making money, doing shopping, having fancy
cars, doing their hobbies, eating good food, etc. In this era, social media has also
become a source of pleasure for users. Nowadays, people can get satisfaction only by
getting hundreds of likes on photos or videos that they have just uploaded, getting
lots of likes and retweets of the tweets they have composed, accumulating a large
number of followers on Instagram account, hitting one million subscribers on
YouTube channel, getting good comments and compliments on photos that have been
uploaded on Facebook, and anything similar to those.
Connectionism is also one of the motives of braggadonian behavior. Some users
feel the need to always stay in touch with others through social networks and also to
keep up-to-date all the time about things that happen on social media or in real life.
For instance, someone idolizes an international singer who lives abroad wherein it is
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highly unlikely to manage a chance of meeting the singer in person. Since she is very
obsessed with her idol, the only way to stay updated is to keep an eye on the artistэs
activities through his social media all the time. This is supported by the fact that in
social media, there are two possible scenarios. One, people can share what goes on in
their lives. Two, users can learn about the lives of other people too. An interesting
result found in a research study by Perez and Gomez (2011). Social networks are
mainly used for entertainment purpose, followed by socializing and updating the
users contact information. Also, since the mean numbers for entertainment and
socializing purposes are not that different, users merge the two aspects into one. They
may find fun entertainment through others.
It was mentioned before in the text that the influence of the Internet on a
language surpasses the boarders of the virtual world. This means that both the
Internet and its newly formed language can affect even our conversations, speech and
language in one’s everyday face-to-face interactions. Previously one could see that
the Internet language has already infiltrated the written forms of communication as
well as dictionaries.
Web-based social communication, such as social media platforms, messaging
apps, and online forums, has significantly influenced language use. The immediacy
and casual nature of online communication have led to the creation of new slang,
abbreviations, and emojis to convey emotions or ideas quickly.
This shift has also impacted grammar and spelling, often leading to informal or
creative forms of expression. Additionally, web-based communication encourages a
more globalized exchange, exposing users to different dialects, languages, and
cultural expressions, which can influence their own language use. However, it also
raises concerns about language degradation or loss of formal writing skills due to the
prevalence of shorthand and informal language in online interactions.
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