Here in México we, literally, destroyed our beautiful language. We have ALOT of word and way to say something, describe, talk, etc, etc. But at this momments, internet chats and msg to cellphones TOTALLY SUCKS. I can´t even understand what people try to send in phone message or chats (only teenages knows who decoding his own language). This is stupid. I dont like to consider me into this kind of people becuase i like the spanish grammar and speech. I try hard to write and talk in a proper way. But this silly kids just love talk like shit (specially write as shit). Even i try more hard to write and speak a good english becuase i love it too.

Maybe im getting old or im very or is a little bit silly of me but this is my humble opinion

Nice Blog Caldas, specially this part: "the guys that didn't know how to wr1t3 3ngl1sh...

Meaningless pictures! Hecken and Butterz won't agree on that!

Ya it is true. Most people will remember the negative aspects. There are advantages though like support for individuals (whether it is a forum for types of treatment for a variety of cancers to how to flash and mod video cards). I think the most memorable aspect of the internet will definitely be the use of the forum (even if some forums out there consist of useless bullcrap).

As for people writing in crazy internet slang I can't say if it is truely butching the language in Canada (very very few people seem to use it) but I think we have all noticed that the term "lol" might actually be added to the dictionary one day

Hecken's gone Hobbit, and the formerly brilliant area of the spam section is now dead, and 4chan is rarely seen around here.

I have noticed that my own once-professional writing style has seriously degraded from a decade of internet usage.

I once had a job writing technical SOPs. I had to be meticulous in my grammar and punctuation, as well as writing clearly, so anyone reading the directions could understand how to do a procedure. This was for a biotechnology company.

Now I misspell words, then I notice that I have misspelled them, and I often don't bother to correct them because I know the people reading them won't notice or care that they have been misspelt.

I try to correct my grammar and be a good example of proper English. I know that many people are not native English speakers and will look at how we write as a standard for learning English.

I disagree. I don't think that we have more retarded people, I think that because of the internet you just realize how many retarded people there are. When you talk about Shakespeare and all the other great people in history, you are referring to a very small amount of people. I think that if you looked at a whole, there were just as many retards as before.

The internet didn't create more retarded people, it just shows who the retarded people are.

As for facebook... my family lives in 5 different countries, how am I suppose to keep in touch with them, without internet? Internet gives me an easy and cheap way to keep in touch with my friends and family. Whether it is through facebook, skype, email, chat, etc.

The internet also gives a wealth of information, which we didn't have before. I remember as a kid asking my parents questions and rarely getting an answer because my parents didn't know and I wasn't able to just look it up. Now all I need to do is go on google. I've learned more on google about space, engineering, mathematics, programming, etc than at school. I'm not saying school isn't important, but people tend to learn things better when they research it themselves.

As far as the chat language goes, it is to make chat faster and easier. I don't want to write "through".. it is easier to just write "thru". I'm not loosing my grammar, I am just making it easier to write messages. Either way, I am terrible at languages and grammar. I always had low grades in my english and french classes. Thats why I am studying aeronautical engineering, lots of math and mechanics .

I agree though, there are a lot of stupid people on the internet. I've even said some stupid things on the internet, which I regret. its a learning process. The internet is a relatively new thing in people's lives.... lol