Journal #10

 Technology plays a huge role in everyday writing and composing especially as when it comes to modern day. Everyday writing use to be composed just from paper and pens in other decades but now when people look at different examples of everyday writing almost every example includes some use of technology. For example, scrapbooks are composed of writing and pictures and pictures come from cameras, which are a form of technology. Another example are blogs and forms of social media like Facebook, instagram and twitter, which are all technology. With technology so involved in everyday writing it only adds to the power that everyday has in the society. Technology allows collaboration and sharing of everyday writing more than it ever did before. When one person post a form of everyday writing on social media their friends are able to share that post which spreads it into a larger community than it was in before. In technology like blogs and YouTube channels the viewers are able to comment on them adding their thoughts and ideas on the situation. Because technology allows this collaboration is becoming easier between two people and more efficient which Skirky brings out in “Opportunity” like Simone talked about in her blog about the idea of the hothouse environment. I believe that if technology did not advance and grow as much as it has in the past years than everyday writing would not be as prevalent in the world as it is today. The most everyday writing that people would see would be written letter or books composed of letters. Technology has been able to shape the success of everyday writing.