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Writing on the walls is something that is called graffiti. But when it comes to Facebook, people don’t take it as in any way threatening for the environment. They in fact, seem to record every other single detail on their walls, and sometimes on the walls of other people too.
Recently a study has shown the vernacular that people usually have when they write on the Facebook walls is a little bit off a safe environment or a polite one at that. A company called Reppler had surveyed 30,000 walls and came up with this conclusion. According to their estimations, 47% of Facebook users have naughty words on their walls. Can it be called freedom of expression in any way or can we infer that people are more lenient to abuse when online?
Mostly people are of course different online from what and how they actually are when you meet them in person to person. There is a whole different persona to them virtually. The study has shown that 56% of these sorts of expressions mostly come from those who are friends with you on Facebook. So be careful about what image you present, because a man is known by the company he keeps.
Often times, people write in their own languages, romanising their words. Most Pakistanis using Facebook use romanised Urdu, which means, writing Urdu using Roman English letters. But, when using their own language, how much friendly they are as compared to when using English. Does language change their expression?
In my opinion,Yes language play an important role and some time you have nice thoughts but you do not have any good word to express those.
choosing right words and language is an art.
I agree. Use of good language is an art and sometimes even those who are very good with words are not able to express what is it that they feel or think, because not always a person can explain everything in words.
But, using polite words is important. People, especially users of social networking sites, often tend to be open with their words without caring what others would feel or think about their foul language.
Using Roman English and short words leads us no where, Some time we forget the spelling of easiest words while writing.
This is all due to romanised Urdu.
Yes, use of shortened words not only spoil our spellings, but they spoil the whole expression. Those who tend to write Romanised Urdu so that they can communicate in their own language, end up confusing the other person as to what they have written, because each and everyone of them has their own spelling for an Urdu word in English.