Journal 10

   Technology has helped to advance the composing of everyday writing in many ways.  I agree with Taylor and believe that the majority of today’s everyday writing occurs online.  Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media mediums have helped to revolutionize the way that we all compose.  These online mediums allow for direct feedback and a more collaborative way of writing.  This means that there is now a much larger and broader audience that has potential to see what you are composing.  This relationship between the reader and writer is completely new to the previous methods used for everyday writing.  Shirky makes a point to point out and identify the “Ultimate Game.”  In this Shirky says that subjects now feel a greater need for commutative approval.  I believe that this tends to be true in many cases.  Whenever someone makes a Facebook status, or posts a picture on Instagram, they are all looking for approval from others in the form of “likes,” or “comments.

            I believe that this need for approval from others correlates directly with the fact that we all strive for acceptance.  If not everyone then just from the people that belong to our social groups.  This article also points out that this new form of everyday writing which seems to rely heavily on technology and the use of the internet, does not allow for the same kind of personal attachment that a print text could, but that we still use it because it is more readily available.  I believe that this is definitely true and that it is almost human nature to find the fastest and easiest way to solve a problem correctly.