Social Media and Mobile Driven Society is Adding New Words to our Vocabulary
With the emerging mobile and social market comes new language! As with any other advancement or popular topic, humans are making up words to describe new actions that take place. In the recent past words such as bling have been added to the Webster's dictionary. The bling fad was started by rappers who wrote beautiful poetry about jewerly on their songs. Now with mobile and social media BOOMING in the U.S., people have taken it upon themselves to start making up words and phrases that shorten their explanations of actions. The big players thus far have been:
Tweet - Message on Twitter
Freinded - When someone becomes your friend on Facebook
Sexting - Text messaging steamy thoughts to your significant other
Many Many more that we will cover very soon: But for now check out this list below
Advertising Age has a great article on this matter - Access the link - Ad Age - Social Media and Mobile Glossary Terms 2010
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