Editing Slang (section)

=== Social media and internet slang ===
Slang is often adopted from social media as a sign of social awareness and shared knowledge of [[popular culture]]. This type known as [[Internet Slang|internet slang]] has become prevalent since the early 2000s along with the rise in popularity of social networking services, including [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], and [[Instagram]]. This has spawned new vocabularies associated with each new social media venue, such as the use of the term "friending" on Facebook, which is a [[verbification]] of "friend" used to describe the process of adding a new person to one's group of friends on the website, despite the existence of an analogous term "befriend". This term is much older than Facebook, but has only recently entered the popular lexicon.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Garber|first1=Megan|title='Friend,' as a Verb, Is 800 Years Old|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/friend-as-a-verb-is-800-years-old/278109/|work=[[The Atlantic]]|date=July 25, 2013|access-date=2 December 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221104116/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/friend-as-a-verb-is-800-years-old/278109/|url-status=live}}</ref> Other examples of slang in social media demonstrate a proclivity toward shortened words or acronyms. These are especially associated with services such as Twitter, which ({{asof|November 2017|lc=y}}) has a 280-character limit for each message and therefore requires a relatively brief mode of expression.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Moss|first1=Caroline|title=Our Updated Guide To Twitter Slang, Lingo, Abbreviations And Acronyms|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guide-to-twitter-slang-lingo-abbreviations-and-acronyms-2013-9|work=[[Business Insider]]|date=9 September 2013|access-date=2 December 2014|archive-date=December 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228133352/http://www.businessinsider.com/a-guide-to-twitter-slang-lingo-abbreviations-and-acronyms-2013-9|url-status=live}}</ref> This includes the use of [[hashtags]] which explicitly state the main content of a message or image, such as #food or #photography.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fortunato|first1=Joe|title=The Hashtag: A History Deeper than Twitter|url=http://www.copypress.com/blog/the-hashtag-a-history-deeper-than-twitter/|website=copypress.com|date=July 2013|access-date=2 December 2014|archive-date=December 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217232607/http://www.copypress.com/blog/the-hashtag-a-history-deeper-than-twitter/|url-status=live}}</ref>