Social Networking Sites
So ‘Twitter’ this week has been voted ‘Top English Word of 2009’ closely followed by ‘Obama’ in a poll of the top 15 words. Now ordinarily I wouldn’t get caught up in what I believe to be pointless polls but I find this to be quite a bizarre. 
These results are provided by the Global Language Monitor; Founded in Silicon Valley in 2003 by Paul J.J. Payack, the GLM describes its role as “expert analysis on language trends and their subsequent impact on politics, culture and business, including the PQ Index/Indicator, analysis of media coverage of major, worldwide events, the rise of Global English and its march to its 1,000,000th word, the Chinglish Phenomenon, Global yoofSpeak, and many others”. In April 2008, GLM moved its headquarters from San Diego to Austin. I’m finding it a little strange that an American company monitors the English language, anyway with the advent of more and more social networking site becoming more popular that visiting friends or even picking up the phone what does this really tell us about where society is heading? Are we becoming more ‘Tech Savvy’ or just plain lazy…
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