Internet and social networks, rivals of spelling?

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Internet and social networks, rivals of spelling?


Visual memory and misspelled words cause children to memorize spelling errors



   In summer, the vacations and the greater free time cause that the use of the social networks shoots between the youngest ones. In particular, the use of Facebook increases by 67%, according to data from an Adglow study.

To these figures adds that the use and possession of a smartphone or technological device also increases among the smallest. The report "Children's rights in the digital age" developed by Global Kids Online highlights that Spanish teenagers who are now 15 years old had their first smartphone with 12, while at the moment those who are between nine and ten had their first phone with seven.

   Today we write and read much more than a few years ago," but it has as a counterpart "that we relate through a screen and we see more frequently erroneous expressions and misspellings that are stored in our retina", explains Virgina Ricoy , co-founder of Walinwa, a service of spelling exercises on the network, in statements to agencies.

The rapidity with which content is published on the network and the arrival of social networks have caused the quality of online content to deteriorate. A bad habit that began with SMS and the abbreviation of words.

Currently, the most frequent in the network is to see the absence of tildes, the elimination of punctuation marks and the confusions between 'to see' and 'have'; 'a' and 'ha', or 'Ay', 'there' and 'there'. "Visual memory is very strong in children and is a mechanism to internalize well or poorly written words," explains Ricoy. "If they see them constantly misspelled through the Internet, it will be easy for them to remember them that way and for them to write them that way too."

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