Why is social networks bad for communication?

[Richard]

While it is obvious that you are well educated by the syntax, sentence structure and proper verbiage of your posting, too many others seemingly cannot spell their name correctly anymore due to texting abbreviations. Additionally, I have seen people asking about things on this board like "I cannot log on to my school's website, what should I do?" or "I cannot find the keys to my car, what should I do?" While these are extreme (but real) examples, it shows acknowledgment of an improper way of communicating as the accepted way and a lack of common sense which equates to developing poor communication skills in the real world. In any case, there are always two sides to every argument. Below are a couple of articles on this. Good luck.