The Internet has its own fashion. Everyone who uses the network regularly, at least once a day, knows about this. Only, unlike real life, where fashion is about style, appearance, some things, shoes or clothes, on the Internet, fashion manifests itself in communication and in trends that are popular at one time or another.
What is online fashion?
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. You can notice that this event is in fashion by the way it is spoken about in the community, on various platforms where communication takes place in a public form. These sites include blogs, VKontakte groups, forums, communities in other social networks, chats in games. The form in which this or that trend can be presented also varies - an event can be ridiculed and taken quite seriously; it can be characterized in a positive or negative way, and so on. In addition to events, a word, a phrase or even a style of communication can become fashionable. For example, at one time it wasthe popular expression "omg". What this means is known to many Internet users who use the network at least a couple of times a day.
Lol and omg - what does that 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 not only Americans can use the word "lol", but also 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 internet buzzwords come from?
It is not known exactly who exactly comes up with various popular words. In general, it can only be said, for example, that Dota (the most popular online game) is the birthplace of the word "omg", 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 own or their colleagues. Most likely, this is where the word came from. Now, for example, Omg Dota is called one of the expansions in the game, which is somewhat 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 this is folklore, folk art.
How to be "in the know"?
Since there are quite a lot of such fashionable phrases, words and abbreviations, the question arises of how to be “in the know” in order to know them all and not ask every time: “Omg - what does this mean?” There is only one answer - to communicate online.
You can, of course, constantly ask questions to your friends, who often sit on different online chats, and find out the most up-to-date information in this way. However, you will not always be able to understand the true semantic connotation of new words. If you are really interested in this, we recommend that you participate in the “online life” yourself, 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 this mean?” will be irrelevant to you.
Diversity of Internet Trends
Recently, you can see that a single set of Internet trends began to break up, breaking into different directions in communication. For example, VKontakte communities may use their own terms, while Dota players actually speak their own slang.
A kind of specialization occurs, during which a person has his own sphere of communication on the network. This, in turn, shows how virtual life is expanding and developing in parallel with real life.
