Revisiting my Final Project

  The research project that was completed focused on how it is possible to determine which Internet group, the ones McColluch describes, a social media user belongs to. Specifically posts and comments in Facebook groups that focused on home decorating were studied and written about. In this blog post I thought it would be interesting to provide different examples from my personal Facebook as well as Twitter. It’s really interesting to me how language changes so quickly and has come so far with the use of acronyms, word choice and emojis. I cropped out all of the names from the tweets and Facebook accounts because I wasn’t sure if the posters would be OK with me sharing their names. However, one of the posts I used as my own because I didn’t realize how much I use acronyms in emoji’s, as well. I did not crop it because I don’t mind and the pictures are cute.

In the project I focused a lot on the difference between 😂 and 🤣 because that has been a recent social media debate. However, I thought it would be interesting to look at other emojis and assess the message that they add to the words used. Even the last post just uses emoji‘s, However, most of us understand what they are trying to say. It’s really interesting how these examples are three “levels” of emoji using; one over uses them, the next just uses a couple at the end and the last one is specifically only using emoji‘s with no words. I thought it would be cool if in the section you guys could guess what Internet group they belong to by just examining the emojis. I know them personally so I can give the answer in the comments tomorrow.

Word choice and acronyms are an ever-changing aspect of language especially with how popular social media is. In these examples the authors used “idgaf,” “forever evolving,””w u.””like????” and “literally I died.” These examples provide insight into the Internet language of the pre-Internet group which is very popular on social media. This group follows trans very closely and evolves with change which is sometimes more difficult for other groups. Almost all of the posts do not spell everything out and use acronyms and shortened words!