Impact of Social Media on English Language – A Critical Analysis

Social media is gaining a lot of momentum now-a-days. It has become an application dependent and computer aided surfing tool to spread information, opinions, and suggestions and even to spread the marketing orientation among the vast number of users. The average time spent by the users over social media everyday is increasing drastically and the number is still gigantic. As per a statistics published by Sanika Diwanji on 11th February, 2019, the number of social media users in India stood about 326.1 million in 2018 and it is expected to be around 448 million in 2023 when in 2017 the number was 293.8 million. This large number of people not only spends time on social sites taking it just as a search engine but also they interact, react and respond to other users. The language they opt for while communicating among the user-pool is obviously English. This English may not be pure and grammatically correct but it is quite obvious that the ways they use English language through their activities is definitely changing the basic fabric of English language to a great extent.