First blog post (2 parts/at least 200 words):
1) What experience, if any, do you have with writing electronically? Do you blog yourself? Twitter? IM? Email?
2) Do you think your writing changes when you use an electronic medium as opposed to when you have to use a pen and paper? If yes, why do you think that is? If no, what do you think this says about the process of writing?
1) In the past I have had a few experiances with writting electronically. I have e-mailed my friends and family when they have gone on vacation or some place far away, I have left comments for people on myspace and Facebook, and I have also left people text messages. I have never twittered anybody and I probably never will. This generation of kids have become more experianced with computers and electronical writting then the past generations have, but that's a good thing. This gives us an oppertunity to share and teach the next generation what we have learned and share with them the same experiances we have had in the past.
ReplyDelete2) When we write a letter on a piece of paper with a pen or pencil , we can write down whatever we feel and can change and change as much as we want. Now on a computer, yes we can make as many changes as we want but not as freely. When you type something in an e-mail and you go to send it to a friend , it has gone and was sent to your friend in a snap of a finger. Then you realize, wait, I forgot to sign it or I forgot to erase something I shouldn't have said, But you can't change it because now it is gone. If you wrote in a letter and you went to send it out when you close the envelope and then you realize you had to change something you can. It is easier to open an envelope and change it then to press the wrong button on the computer and not be able to change your response.In the end I believe that writing is a challenge and I believe that when you write electronically it does effect you writing in so many ways.
Interesting - so you find revision more difficult on a computer? I find it much harder to change things on paper than on a screen.
ReplyDeleteI see your point, though - once you send an e-mail, it's out there - you can' really revise it without sending another e-mail. On the blog, you can edit your posts anytime you want - so don't feel that what you write is etched in stone.