Language destruction in young people’s online communication

About young people’s communication through the Internet a lot has already been said, but this knowledge still needs to be updated due to the emergence of new phenomena. Some of them include the destruction of language in online communication, which translates into social life and has its destructive, disastrous reminiscences in interpersonal relationships. A significant drawback of Internet communication is mediated nature, muting of many communication channels, and the lack of indicators of the recipient’s emotions on the sender’s verbal message. This leads – for example – to building barriers due to misunderstanding, lack of dialogue culture, devaluation of words through the expansion of acronyms, fake news, post-truth, consent to vulgarisms, verbal violence through hate. Young people easily move from verbal violence and contempt for other people to psychological violence in the form of cyberbullying, as well as physical violence, sometimes leading their peers to death.