Digital Language?

The new digital age has bought up a discussion about our language. This discussion seems to be whether the English language is changing or not. We all see it everywhere, in our texting, our IM use and facebook. Well facebook seems to have tensions on the use of language and our spelling. Certain groups of people have their own lingo and ways of spelling.

We clearly have social tensions. Structuralism (a theory of language) tells us that the sign is arbitrary. So letters and words mean different things in different languages. Maybe people on facebook don't talk to others from outside groups as they probably don't understand them. Yet since the sign is arbitrary certain words, spelling and phrases can be made accepted by people, if there is enough fluidity between people.

But some say that our modern ways of "txt spk" were found in the victorian age with poets. So since different kinds of people on the net use different ways of spelling and talking maybe there can be fluidity as they don't need to be afraid of change as it is something that has possibly always been there.