Technology plays a vital role in writing. With out it, a lot of the texts or information we view would not be as readily available. The internet is a huge network with lots of writing used for a multitude of different things. Twitter, for example, is used to "tweet" or write short, messages about anything. While a blog, an online journal, can be used to write longer more informative texts. The internet in relation to everyday writing is very helpful. With out it, there wouldn't be as many readers. One specific thing technology allows us to do is collaborate. With out collaboration many of the texts we know and love would not be possible. The internet is truly amazing. I still don't quite understand how it works, and I don't think I ever will. However, having it available at our fingertips (use of mobile devices) makes sharing everyday writing even easier! I think the quote Taylor pulled, which was stated by Shirky, is worth sharing. That is, "People behave as if their relationship matters, even if they are told it doesn't, even id they are assured it doesn't , even id they have only one interaction with a known person." With this, he starts to talk about how the population strives for "community approval" which I agree with. A lot of us strive for acceptance, although we don't fully know the reason why. It's confusing, but true.
Over this course, we have now talked about several examples of everyday writing and why they are everyday. This article was very interesting and gave us yet another persepctive of everyday writing. I think technological writing (tweets, email, instagram, blogs, facebook, etc. etc.) might not be the most valuable, in that they are shown across the border, so they don't have as much of that personal attachment, yet they are the most readily available.
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