THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS

Аннотация

Since the beginning of the digital era, social media have been an integral part of daily communication, especially among young people. The essay explains how social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), TikTok, and WhatsApp help in learning and enhancing English writing skills. While creating more avenues for real-time interaction and lexical exposure on these sites, they also subject users to informal language, abbreviations, and grammatical non-standardness that may influence the writing habits of learners. With a combination of surveys, interviews, writing sample analysis, and observation, this study aims to determine how social media facilitates and limits English writing competence. Practical suggestions are given to balance social media usage to produce instead of discourage formal writing competence. Keywords: Social media, writing skills, English language learning, digital communication, informal language, grammar, vocabulary, learner motivation.