[teeja]

The internet empowers many with an opportunity to be part of the conversation - to the extent that they're able and willing. It brings together collaborators and ideas that might otherwise never have met. It opens opportunities to explore facts and ideas, and for self-expression, that have never existed.

"Destroying the English language"? I think not. More likely, there are those who are afraid of the empowerment of the many. So, as they so often do, they throw up FUD. The times, they continue to be changing, Mr. Jones.

[mcantelon]

And it improves the conversation by adding metrics and filtering. In my personal experience it has induced me to improve my writing and become a more reasonable, less ideological, person.