In answering this question, there is most certainly internet dialects present Today.The man in the YouTube video pretty much explained how in different internet communities out there, there are certain ways people communicate to each other and a different behavior that is portrayed in different places. for example in social medias such as tumblr, people who use the site write differently than one would write in twitter or Facebook. The guy in the video explains that all of these sites today develop a norms in ways of writing. You wouldn’t not be able to fit in the tumblr community of you com in and write the way you do in twitter. You have to get used to way people normally write in that community. There is a certain dialect and language when coming across a new place for writing and communicating that you have to become accustomed to.
The three big speech communities i use today are social media like twitter, Instagram, and my email. Like the man in the you tube video said, there is different internet dialect for different communities. As for twitter it is a place that is kind of like a blog, except you are limited on how much you can say in a post and you connect and communicate with others by following them. Instagram’s main purpose is more photo related in which you can add captions on photos and you can also follow people on there. There are norms that go along with every online community today.
When comparing Instagram and twitter with an email site, you wouldn’t typically try to message or get in touch with someone professionally as you would with an email. More people are starting to use Instagram and Twitter more for jobs and big business that advertise through that may use a different dialect than a person who is using it for personal use. It really depends on how you use it. The norms that go along with an email is that it tends to be more professional in communicating to someone.
I identify with these communities because with the twitter and Instagram I feel like it is very easy to connect and meet with other people. It has kind of gotten stuck on me since the first time I’ve used them. I defiantly feel the need to have and use email because it makes communicating with someone that is important look better like for example, a job or a teacher. And its a good secondary source of communication other that texting. I think that there is certainly people out there that have not been apart of the internet dialect that is developing in these communities but it takes time to become accustomed to the type of language we use in different places of the internet.
Nick Hughes 