Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Experience with writing electronically
The experiences that I have with writing electronically are using IM back when it was more popular, using facebook, facebook chat and messages, and using my e-mail from Kent State. I do feel that when you use an electronic medium as opposed to the old style of using a pen and paper your writing is affected and does change. When using an electronic medium to write such as twitter, facebook, and IM people tend to use abbreviations, shortened words, and symbols for their text, which in turn can make it hard to understand what someone is trying to say. With the large number of people writing electronically it becomes somewhat unnatural to use a pen and paper to communicate with someone and almost become so accostomed to writing electronically that grammer and punctuation styles may change, and also the neatness and legibility of handwriting styles may change.
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>>With the large number of people writing electronically it becomes somewhat unnatural to use a pen and paper<<
ReplyDeleteYes - good point. The act of physically putting pen to paper is becoming increasingly anachronistic and, as you say, "unnatural."
>>and almost become so accostomed to writing electronically that grammer and punctuation styles may change<<
I think you're right - in fact, they're already starting to change.