The Internet has affected the way we use language. The language found in chats or other synchronous ways of online communication tends to be simple and abbreviated.  Crystal (2004) noted that capitalisation is often ignored, even for I. However, mistakes are also present in asynchronous online communication, such as e-mails, giving a careless appearance and undermining the real value of the message (Torrado Cespón, 2018).

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This type of language was named by Crystal (2004) as netspeak. Netspeak tries to be fast and, in synchronous communication, to reflect orality. There, it becomes an enhanced new version of netspeak we can classify as spoken written language (Torrado-Cespón, 2015). The problem here is the lack of non-verbal signs, such as intonation or face expressions. As a result, confusion arises depending on the emotional state of the reader who only has a plain script.