In our modern society, it has come to our attention that as times changed, the use of the English language has drifted to using simpler words, short-hand manuscripts, and using leets. However, based on conducted research, we noticed a trend that might impact the future of the internet. If this continues to spread, particularly through teenagers and youth culture on all social media sites, we will have a hard time educating our children of the younger generation to become well-educated citizens in the United States and the English-speaking world, though this might include other languages as well.

Let us begin with a short history. When Modern English was first developed in the fifteen fifties during the great vowel shift, many people spoke to one another formally and eloquently. As times changed, more and more idioms and slang terms started popping up as a form of experimentation and unconvention. This, however, gained popularity rapidly during the time of the industrial and technological revolution. When the first graphic-interface computer was introduced in 1984,, the arrival of the internet and the launching of the text message, all these things are leading factors in to what could become a bad habit for many teens attracted by these devices. Everyone wants to learn about the latest and greatest technology that is out there.

In our times, music has also changed our views on what we say, what we do, what we wear, and how we act. What you might be thinking at this moment is that the new age is not the best in the world at all. Of course there are teenagers who believe that our current society is not of the best, and to show it, they write using proper grammar on all social media sites. Other teens start noticing, and eventually this will come to a point where the two parties clash. This is due to the fact that the teens with the real brains come together with those who are popular and do not care about grammar at all, and all they do is conform. Due to this, many teens start to become separated, and start turning into social outcasts. Word starts spreading around to avoid those who do not like modern slang and music. Our point here is to stop all of this from getting any worse by starting at the beginning.

Let us explain our plan. What we are hoping to do is to have developers of popular social media sites consider implementing a self-controlled spell checker that can be controlled by parents and educators, as well as normal users. We are not trying to force people to spell grammatically and properly, because the main purpose of a social media site is to share, connect, and have fun, not about pure education and pure history. Social media is all about sharing photographs and videography, but sometimes it can lead to trouble as well. Some tend to spread gossip and use it as a way to target other people of a lower class. So far, we have a few web browsers with implemented spell checkers, but not autocorrectors. One good example is Apple's Safari and the dictionaries that are included on the Mac's and smart phones. They have support for suggested corrections and they can autocorrect on occasion. We would like to see more of this on other platforms as well. As a person might already know, there are a number of smart telephones that help the end user in writing on a small keyboard that has the ability to auto correct misspelled words. The question is, can we have this on social media sites? The answer is very difficult to guess because it will all have to come down to one thing. The user's choice.

If the person wants to have their spelling corrected, what would be best, to have someone correct their spelling, or have it auto corrected? What we propose, is to have a website pertaining to the social media, or an option in their computer or web browser to have an option in the user's setting to enable or disable the spell checker and choose their native language. Once that is established, the user can choose when and where should their spellings be checked, and how frequently should this be done? If a new word is introduced, the user has the ability to add that word. If the user is not content with the spell checker, they can go into their settings and disable it.

Should social media sites have more automated abusive content detection? Of course they should. We need more artificial intelligence to be able to detect if a person is lashing out too far on any socialmedia site. There is a saying in futurology that computers may outsmart us some day and that we might turn into transhumans or post-humans. Let us prevent it from happening.

What will we expect to see in as an outcome? What we are hoping to see is more of an appreciation for learning and education, especially for middle and high school teens. Why do we want this more than anything else? Let us give an example. Suppose we took a popular teenager who said, "I think I would like to work at McDonald's." What is the first step in getting this job, having a resume. Now how should one build a resume? A resume is written very formally and should have no spelling or grammatical mistakes of any kind. Why should a resume be built this way? Because our employers want to see how capable our younger generations are. We want them to prove by using precise language, what their motivations are. The average teenager is not going to be motivated to build a resume and get a job or find a place to volunteer. Now how does this tie into social media and texting? In our research, we discovered that if teenagers continue using this language, this will turn into a very bad habit that will show up in any position which will discourage employers to hire someone with poor qualities.

When you read this petition, the first thing that will come to your mind might be, wow, the creator of this petition really is doing something. Others might think that such things should be kept to oneself, and not share it with others. Say, have you ever heard of freedom of speech? We call this a revolution, because we are wanting to change something within our society.

By signing below, you support our view and choose to help us make a difference in our lives. Your signature will be the key to starting this movement.

Thank you for reading and thank you for being  supportive.

Sincerely,

A. C. G