Netspeak

Netspeak is a language dictated by your keyboard - and the tools you are granted to express yourself with online. Netspeak can turn in to something all its own depending on what site you're using. For example, Twitter has its own language entirely. On Twitter, you are further restricted in this capacity by the 140 character limit per tweet. There are also a number of shorthand words and shortcuts for reference other users that you must learn to fully utilize the site.

You would never say these things in real life (not usually anyone that I've come across anyway), and the language further ignites a function of some kind on the application (like @user will create a hyperlink to allow followers to click on your friend's twitter account/profile. Things like this occur all the time, evolving constantly, on social networking sites. On PLM, for example, you have an entire type of communication unlike any other social network - openly sharing the deepest pains and struggle attached with a disease or illness like MS or Borderline Personality Disorder. Another element of PLM's netspeak can be summed up by this abbreviation for the word "diagnosed:"