Wednesday, January 12, 2011

My first post

I have a pretty vast amount of experience writing electronically. I am one of those people who if a new thing comes out like MySpace or Facebook I will follow the trend and end up creating one for myself. However the first thing I used to do a lot was chatting online with friends. Everybody had their own screen name and you were able to go online and chat with as many friends as you wanted. I used to be addicted to that. I would go on a couple of times every single day and just talk with my friends about anything. Then I got really into myspace, and then eventually facebook which I still use and go on every single day. Recently I created a twitter account, so I could follow many athletes and also my friends and family. I created it mainly to see what some of my favorite athletes or comedians were saying, but occasionally I will post something myself. My main source of writing electronically would have to be facebook and my Kent email. I check my email every single day and read anything I get, or if I have to email a professor asking him a question. So writing electronically is a huge part of my life and I deal with it every single day.
I would have to say that it changes a little when I’m using an electronic medium as opposed to writing on pen and paper. The only thing to me that really changes is that I might try to sound more sophisticated and intelligent, because I am able to look up better words or sayings that I would be able to use in my writing. To me this does not really say too much about the process of writing. It is merely just another way to get your voice heard in a different style.

1 comment:

  1. I'm seeing this trend more and more - that is, moving away from the old chat systems and towards social networks like Facebook. FB still offers chat as well - but also a plethora of other options.

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