When Facebook came out in 2004 it spread around the world fast. Everybody started joining. Although Mark Zuckerburg's target audience for Facebook was college students, it soon spread to teens, adults and some older people. Many teens are signed up for Facebook and constantly check their facebook five or six times a day. We also tend to write with horrible grammar usage. I for one am guilty of doing this. Teens like to make things short and snappy because were lazy. Any teen that does this will receive negative effects from this repetitive habit such as getting bad grades in school because you spell school as skool or instead of you, yuh. Although this odd habit is easy to reverse you become more attached to these ways if you join facebook at young age and begin your earlier life by using bad grammar and spelling usage. The youngest age group I know of that has a Facebook are the age of 11. (fifth grade) That's nuts! If the newer generation of kids are growing up with this kind of technology at their fingertips how will they grow up?
Many kids argument to this is " I can control this" and "It won't effect me at school at all" or "It's just Facebook" However, in a study of thirty teenagers, the average time spent on Facebook per weekend was 11 hours. In addition, the human brain has been proven to remember and repeat whatever it looks at or does often. That's why you can remember your Facebook password better than what your learning in math.
This popular trend doesn't only effect your brain and schoolwork but it also gives leaves a bad impression to people that don't know you too well. People will think,your stupid and you can't spell. The worst part about this is that people's assumptions are usually wrong. You don't want people thinking your something your not or, not capable of doing something that you can do. Kids and Teens all over the world have this spelling and grammar problem. If this trend doesn't come to an end soon our new generation will be filled with people who just don't know how spell.
