Vincent Miller made a great deal of points in the fourteen pages of dense material I dug through. However I do believe that he is looking at the social networking phenomenon in an unreasonably narrow scope. He accuses these sites of perverting the English language, of "killing the art of conversation". I do not agree with this commentary. The internet has simply given everyone a voice.

Literacy is no longer something reserved for the elite, or the powerful, or even the Y chromosome owners among us. With each generation the percentage increases, and not everyone has something inspiring to say, and that shouldn't be expected each time words are written.

Communication is defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs." (dictionary.com) The internet has become the number one medium of communication, but it is not an artist sanctuary. It's a virtualized real world, and in the 3-D world, people don't speak for beauty, they speak for survival.