Is writing a social or individual practice

You can take this question in many different ways. Writing as i found out in this class can be so many different things and can have so many different purposes. Often times if an individual writes in a journal or a diary because they want something to look back on or just to express how they feel on a given issue that presents itself in their life. This type of writing is almost always for individual practice because a lot of things that a person puts into a journal is not meant to be pulic. However there are exceptions to when writing is more of a social topic then an individual practice. Whenever you see a post on a blog or someone writing a status on facebook it is almost always meant towards a group of people or meant to be heard. I think more often then not writing is a social practice due to the fact that there are so many published books. People conciously or not write in a social atmosphere more then they realize. Even though both social and individual writing are shown daily i think it is more common that writing is a social excercise.