Writing IS a social practice

Writing is a social practice because writing often involves other people. I’ve never written a paper where there wasn’t a critic (teacher or friend/family) looking at it. To effectively write one may need someone to edit or read their paper at some point. Once another party gets involved I consider it a social practice. I also don’t know of too many people who write to no audience. The only exception I can think of is a journal or private log of some sort. I’ve always figured to purpose of writing was to persuade or inform others, so how is that NOT social?! Just like they have book clubs and seminars, they also have writing clubs and all kinds of ways to get your ideas and words out there. Look at what we are all doing right now. BLOGGING! This is a social form of writing. We all write/post daily updates on our facebook pages, send emails, and log onto other social pages. Tell me how that isn’t SOCIAL Writing! As I said before there are a couple exceptions like private journals and such but for the most part I believe most writing is social. Probably in the upper 90 percentile range.