Impact of Social Media Platforms on Creative Writing in English: A Critical Study | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Social media have many traits and characteristics and are one of the contemporary media formats. Today social media use is rising at a considerable rate every day. Students can express important concerns linked to their learning experience. This study examined how social media platforms may influence creative English writing skills and identify ways to enhance English writing abilities in social media. The current research involves quantitative and qualitative techniques, such interviews, questionnaires as well as a method of experimental research used in the present study. Due to the development of social media in our everyday lives, the globe has become a tiny town. In many respects, its growth affects the lives of individuals. Students therefore utilise social media to strengthen their abilities in particular for students. What is the impact of social media on creative writing of students in this study? And why students utilise academic abbreviations and acronyms. The results suggest that most students have found that social media have a little influence on their formal writing, and the major reasons behind the use of academic abbreviations are to gain time, make the communication process easier, become a habit and forget about word form. In order to explore the influence of the students' creative writing skills, The results revealed that the writing of high school students with the good impacts overweighs the negative effects of digital social media has various influences. The results indicated that both students and teachers may engage in groups where they can exchange ideas, share resources linked to their courses and invite their students to take up jobs that can assist students improve their creative talents in writing. The findings, however, confirmed a detrimental effect for digital social networks. In their official writings and speeches they employ short word forms, poor grammar and phrase structures that are now much more understood by pupils with these language kinds in the digital social media.