As far as the internet is concerned, the answer seems to be "yes".
Every month - if not every week - new tools or new online applications emerge and constantly change the face of the online world and therefore our way to use it.
When I was about 12, I chatted for the first time on a common online platform. Only teenagers were "hanging out" - so to speak - on this website, and the vocabulary level was extremely limited... This platform was like a large common computer window, where people posted their reactions in a total anarchy.
But revolution was about to happen : MSN made an impressive breakout in our lives of early internet users. New habits were emerging. Young people started to say "lol" (laughing out loud) and "mdr" (mort de rire, in French). A whole new social etiquette was born, with its own codes and habits.
I'm only talking about the chatting applications of the web, but this pattern is almost the same in every aspect of the web. I don't think these habits are a good or a bad thing to break, I think the really important question is that we constantly need to adapt ourselves to the internet's evolutions, so that we can keep up with the rest of the world.
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