Instant messaging, texting, or even

Instant messaging, texting, or even Computer Mediated Communication are the terms used to refer tocommunication in social networks. These terms are not the most appropriate ones because thetechnology and platforms of this way of communication have evolved rapidly. Since this communicationis widespread, there is a need to have a much more standardized communication in terms of thelanguage variety used for it. Having in mind various principles of socio cognitive approach interminology, the study aimed to build a new appropriate term in this regard. Having in mind all thecircumstances and the scale of standardization of this way of communication, I think that the best termthat fits it is “Netlect”. This is done in order to include, using the same word, the name of the platformwhere this communication is being developed (net) and the paradigm for linguistic variety (lect), as insocio+lect, dia+lect etc. The case of Albanian and other languages goes in favour of this term becausewe are talking about “a language variety that never existed before”, as Ferrara, Brunner, andWhittemore stated earlier in 1991.