Whoz teh looz0rs?

I think a lot about the internet. As a writer who is paid to make words on paper it's hard not to. I love the freedom of speech aspect and the empowerment of everyone to talk, discuss and spread information like a tidal wave. The thing that fascinates me most, though, is the effect it's having on language. Already website commenters and forum posters have reduced communication to a primitive phonetic grunting, full of elongated vowels and experimental consonant combinations.

The basic function of English been has reduced to its barest, most minimal components. The intent is there; conversation is achieved but at what cost? What place for writers when linguistics are a majority vote decided by fashion, trends and typos, changing as fast as you can hit 'refresh'. The building blocks of words reduced to an easy, freestyling improvisation timed to the click of a mouse. Already there are websites popping up on aggregators, placing highly, getting the hits but with misspelt articles, devoid of punctuation and requiring you translate rather than read them. That said, the information gets through and word is spread, even if it's not properly used.