The Internet has its own fashion. Everyone who uses the network regularly knows this, at least once a day. Only, unlike real life, where fashion extends to style, appearance, certain things, shoes or clothes, on the Internet, fashion is manifested in communication and in trends that are popular at one time or another.
What is fashion online?
So, if we talk about fashion trends, then this may be some event that has become popular among Internet users. For example, an upcoming holiday, some kind of international competition, the release of a film or book. It’s possible to notice that this event is in fashion by the way people speak about it in the community, on various platforms where communication takes place in public. These sites include blogs, VKontakte groups, forums, communities on other social networks, and chat rooms in games. The form in which a particular trend can be presented also varies - an event can be ridiculed and presented quite seriously; it can be characterized in a positive or negative way, and so on. In addition to events, a word, phrase or even a communication style can become fashionable . For example, at one time the expression “omg” was popular. What this means, many Internet people who use the network at least a couple of times a day know.
Lol and omg - what does it mean?
Many popular expressions came to us from English-speaking users. This is not surprising, because their prevalence is due to the demand for the English language itself. This means that the word "lol" can be used not only by Americans, but also by Chinese, Europeans and other peoples around the world. This expression, by the way, means laughing out loud. It is used in cases where a person wants to emphasize how funny he is (literally, the phrase means: "I laugh very loudly"). Another word - "omg" - has also become quite popular. It expresses surprise and means oh my God, and is translated - "My God!".
Where do buzzwords appear on the Internet?
It is not known exactly who specifically invents various popular words. In general, we can only say, for example, that the word "omg" Dota (the most popular online game) is the birthplace of the word, since it was from its chats that it began to be used in everyday life. In particular, it was her players who most often wrote the phrase "omg stats", showing surprise at the statistics of their or their colleagues. Most likely, the word came from there. Now, for example, Omg Dota is called one of the extensions in the game, which is slightly different from its basic version.
There are also versions of how phrases like "lol", "wtf", "idk" appear. Everyone knows what they mean, but when exactly they were used for the first time is unclear, since it is folklore, folk art.
How to be "in the subject"?
Since there are a lot of similar fashionable phrases, words and abbreviations, the question arises of how to be “in the subject”, to know them all and not to ask each time: “Omg - what does this mean?” The only answer is to communicate on the network.
You can, of course, constantly ask questions to your friends, who often sit on different online chats, and find out the most relevant information in this way. However, you will not always be able to understand the true semantic connotation of new words. If this really interests you, we recommend that you participate in the “online life”, which, by the way, has already absorbed many people from the reality around us. If you really give the Internet part of your personal time, then questions like “omg - what does it mean?” will be irrelevant to you.
Variety of Internet Trends
Recently, you can notice that a single set of Internet trends has begun to split up, breaking up into different directions in communication. For example, VKontakte communities can use their terms, while Dota players actually speak their slang.
There is a kind of specialization, during which a person has his own sphere of communication in the network. This, in turn, already shows how
virtual life expands and develops in parallel with real life.