Closing the Gap in Communication Volume 3 | Page 2

September 12,2008 There have been a lot of types and ways to chat to get to know new people. Now there’s a program called Messenger offered by Msn and it lets you add people from all around the world. Our group did a survey where we asked questions to people to tell us what program they prefer, Msn o Chat. Our survey reflected that a 60% prefer Msn, because the program is more private and safer and 30% preferred chat, because in this program they get meet people from all around the world. Problems with Vocabulary because of chat? It is said that youngsters shorten words to accelerate the time to exchange words or messages. Some of them are using words that sometimes do not know their meaning and correct what they write as a method of mockery or innocence. “From His Mouth” Raymond Lopez I think that is true because I sometimes abbreviate a few words to be faster writing the message.