Adele Ferguson - Could social media lead to language erosion?

I NEVER HEARD of social media or social networking until the other day when USA Today ran a pitch for it from educators.

It apparently involved Facebook, the Internet, Twitter and the YouTube, all of which I know little about other than they are uses of the computer that can be dangerous not only to the young and ignorant but the old and senile.

I mean, most of the publicity I’ve seen about any of these concerned ways in which one person can humiliate or cheat another person. How many news stories haven’t we read where some gullible teen is convinced to meet a total stranger she met through on...