Social networks as a speedy way of spreading English

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share: verb trans 1 to partake of, use, experience, or enjoy (something) with others.

The Penguin English Dictionary, III Edition

In the last years, Internet as been invaded by this word. This small verb allowed English to not just a foreign language but a language of our thoughts and feelings, that apparently will finish in an electronic machine, waiting for other people to also be a part of those thoughts.

Two big companies (Twitter and Facebook) achieved to create a cloud that gathers everything that's "sharable" in every single person. This cloud, is mostly in English. Even in countries like Portugal, people express everything they do in English sentences. It's a quick way to introduce English in the deep mind of people. If people see that others know a globalist language, these people will be forced to learn it to, even by themselves.  It's not a foreign language but the main language of all feelings we share and the world share, and if with don't learn this, well your web posts on Facebook and Twitter won't be readable for people from other countries and you won't be part of this major movement. Yes, because other people from other countries will reach us through this social networks. Everything you put is now public and it can't be deleted.

This movement can be seen in two ways: a good tool, it fastens communication, spreads culture and personal achievements and it globalizes the world, or a tool to make all people in the world the same being, sweep other languages from Internet and a powerful machine for everyone's narcissism: people are becoming addicts/ "shareaholics" (see http://www.shareaholic.com/, a company that puts all those little buttons saying "Be the first to Like this!"). Only the future will tell what consequences can this social storage bring or what benefits...

Social networks are proving to have every thought or feeling converted and stored in just numbers. You are tempted by your friends and social needs to have an email. Now it's not just an email, but a single account in a well knowned social website.

Our phones, computers even the news papers (did you ever though why are those black and white squares that look like a bar code printed in some newspaper and magazines?) have a link to social networks. or an application to it. Some people even feel like, being spied.

"Join this", "Comment that", "share every thought of yours, so your mind becomes not just yours but of everyone (it remembers something). We are surrounded by the T or F logo.

...and this is another powerful way of spreading English. 

The world is one a social network. Wikileaks is a website to comment and give your opinion about unknowned secrets in the world. Even candidates from the last presidential election expressed their thoughts and opinions on Facebook and Twitter.

If your interested, read and watch this articles and videos (try counting how many social links are): 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/wikileaks-claims-facebook-deleted-its-page-30000-fans/story-e6frfro0-1225856489723 (Wikileaks seen as an illegal network on Facebook)

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12685 (CIA and privacy policies on Facebook) 

Even TV series are exploring a new way of telling people what is Facebook:

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=CAV8SADE (for more information about IT Crowd just check the Wikipedia's page)

Liked it? If it doesn't work, it is a "Like" button. Geek things...

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Bartolomeu Rodrigues

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