This article is explaining that the English language is changing faster than ever and this is down to social media. Experts say that parents and the older generation do not understand and are confused by the way their children speak on social media and also how they text them. It has been found that terms such as 'fleek' and 'bae' are new words and a survey shown that only 10% of 2,000 parents understood the true meaning, while 86% of them openly admitted that they felt they spoke a totally different language to their own children on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. This is also including abreaviated words, strange punctuation structure a long with different words. Popular social media acronyms ICYMI (in case you missed it), TBT (throwback Thursday) and NSFW (not safe for work) also made the list of terms parents failed to understand. However old text speak such as TXT and G8 and M8 are considered to not be used as widely as it used to when text messaging first came to the world but instead is being replaced by new words and now Emoji's. Emoji's are images that are available on iOS phones that can be used to express emotions that have all different facial expressions. Other symbols are also available such as weather symbols, food, objects and many more. Visual messaging is also becoming more popular because of new applications being produced, for example, Snapchat, Instagram and Vine where you can share and send photos and videos either privately or publically on a personal account. John Sutherland, a language expert has said that "we are moving to a more pictographic form of communication with the increasing popularity of emoticon". Eventually it is thought that less words will be used in messaging so icons and pictures will take over.
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