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I am very familiar with online blogging. I use facebook, twitter, IM, and email. I find it easier than formally writing or calling the person. I think that it is helpful and beneficial to people to blog. For example, for group projects I find it easier to IM the group members than to actually meet them in the library or some place, that way you can do it from your room or another location if you have a prior engagement. It is also a great way to keep in contact with people that live a distance away or have not seen in a long time. Another way that I use it is to mass email people to let them know about an event or if something is happening that they should know about. Either way it is looked at, electronic writing and blogging is a helpful thing.

When I am writing online or blogging, I tend to use the regular acronyms, such as "brb" or "ttyl." I think that these make writing a lot faster and easier to read, but I would never use these when I am actually writing. I feel that when I write that I have to be more formal since I am actually taking the time out to write the letter or whatever it may be. I think that when I write online that my medium changes drastically, words are spelled incorrectly, punctuation, is horrible and just my writing over all is bad. When I am writing on pen and paper or in a word document, my writing style changes and I feel that I need to be more professional.