Understanding the New Abbreviations Used to Communicate

With every second that goes by, new inventions are created. The moment you go to the store to buy a new laptop, there is a new program almost ready to be launched and there are thousands of apps created by the minute. Along with all this technological advances comes along a new era of communication; a time where the long, complicated sentences are just answered with a simple IKR (I Know Right), a LOL (Laughing Out Loud), or a TTYL (Talk To You Later). are you familiar with these scenario? Maybe it is you or it could be the language that your teenager is speaking with its friends. Whichever the situation, one thing is true, social networks are here to stay.

The communication era started millions of years ago and has gone through an evolution up to what we know today. Ask yourself one question, could you see yourself living without your cell phone, no access to the internet and no tweets or Facebook notifications? Most people will answer a loud and clear NO! It is actually hilarious how a few years ago no one was so dependable on technology as much as we are now. While there was actually people that used their phones constantly and those that were always log onto social networking sites at least once an hour every day. Thanks to these advances, you can actually stay connected with people all over the world. For instance, if you move from the U.S. to Europe, although you feel home sick, you will still be able to see your family and your loved ones through web cams, stay in touch with them thanks to pictures and videos you can see online, you can chat and send instant emails. While all this is amazing, there is still some downs to it. Many studies have shown that people have forgotten about real social networking; you know the one that requires for you to actually interact with real people in person and have a conversation beyond the keyboard.

Before people used to send each other greeting cards for birthday wishes, now they just send you a wall post on Facebook; while you had a pen pal, you have a follower on Twitter and so forth. But how is all this transforming the way people is communicating today? While interpersonal communications have changed from having long conversations to a weird composition of acronyms, we have to keep track of all these changes and not fall behind.

A good example of this was portrayed it the hit comedy sitcom Modern Family when Phil Dunphy was explaining how he is a "cool" dad and keeps up with technology. So now the question is, will our language suffer the consequences of this technological change or is it something that we are only using while logged onto any of the social networks and our cell phones? For now, don't fall behind and at least understand what your kids or your friends really mean when they text you WTF. Here is a list of all abbreviations that our population is using nowadays.

So, just remember that as fast and fun it could be to use this so called text abbreviations, you shouldn't get too used to them because unfortunately, you will start forgetting the correct way of writing. As long as you can keep track of when you are allowed to used the famous LOL and TTYL's you won't have a problem, but, if you call your local movers for moving assistance, they might not be into all the new technological slang. So be careful who you implement this language with.

Quick Breakdown List of the Most Important Inventions in History:

• 1957- The internet started when Sputnik I (the first satellite) was launched by Soviet Union. American, feeling threatened by this, created the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) in 1958. It worked for the safety from space based missile attack. Later on they made another satellite which was the first satellite of U.S.
• 1861- The United States starts the Pony Express used for mail delivery.
• 1876- Alexander Graham Bells patents the electric telephone.
• 1898- The first answering machines are sold
• 1923- Vladimir Kosma Zworykin invented the television camera.
• 1963- Zip codes are invented in the United States.
• 1971- The Floppy Disc is invented.
• 1981- IBM sold the first computer.
• 1982- Audio CDs became commercially available in October.
• 1983- The first Cellular Phone network started in the U.S. and the first American commercial analog cellular service or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech.
• 1983- Time Magazines named the computer as "Man of the Year".
• 1985- Cellular Phones in cars became popular.
• 1992- The World Wide Web is available for public used making communication at light speed.

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