1. How has technology impacted your writing/composing?
It wasn’t until recently that I understood just how much technology has impacted my writing. I always viewed technology to be more of a convenience (or at times, inconvenience, depending on what I’m trying to do) than anything else. Before taking this class, I viewed technology as a tool that allowed me to quickly complete my writing tasks and easily access information. I had very little experience with blogging and tweeting, so I had no idea how much they truly could impact my writing.
One of the main reasons my writing has been impacted by technology is because I have become so much more aware of my audience. Although I have always considered my audience in past writing assignments, I knew that in the end, my only real audience was my professor; therefore, I adjusted my writing in order to please whoever was grading my paper. Now, sites like Twitter and Weebly have made me really evaluate everything I say because my audience extends far beyond the classroom.
I have always been an extremely private (or as Stites would say, “mysterious”) person, and have never been all that comfortable with exposing anything personal about myself. I’ve never been a member on Facebook or Myspace, personal dating sites, or anything else related to social networking or blogging, and because of that, it has taken me some time to warm up to the idea that my words are out there for the world to see. Even when I look at my tweets, I see that a lot of them are not things that I have said; rather, they’re other’s quotes that I used to convey certain emotions I was feeling at the time. For example, there were a lot of times when I was feeling extremely sad because I was thinking about my dad, but because I was not willing to be vulnerable and expose those feelings, I used quotes that I have come across over the years, to express my real emotions. Although I did my best to go with the flow, it just isn’t in my personality to constantly share my feelings with complete strangers.
While I have come to appreciate technology, and all that it has to offer, reading Rock My Network has reinforced any negative feelings I may have had towards the social networking community by proving just how ridiculous some of it can be. I know I can sound a little cynical, and I my intentions are not to offend the people within that community, but social networking just isn’t for me.
Though I am not all that crazy about Twitter, and it’s taken some time to get used to blogging, I am glad that I have been forced to experiment with both, because forcing me out of my comfort zone has allowed me to grow as a writer.
2. How has technology connected or made you mindful of your writing and place?
One way technology has made me more mindful of my writing is because it allows me evaluate and assess what ist is that I hafe said, which can have both positive and negative effects on my writing. When I read what others have written, it can help to confirm something I have said, but it can also cause me to second guess myself and feel less confident about what I have written. Technology allows me to see what other people have to say and to gain a different perspective on certain topics, which in turn helps me to further develop my own ideas.
At first, I had a difficult time understanding how I was going to find my place just through tweeting about random observations. It wasn’t until I tweeted for about a month, that I began to notice a repetend within my tweets. Though I have mentioned before that I am not a huge fan of twitter, I will admit that I like the fact that I can look back at something I tweeted months ago and use it as inspiration for my writing. not only that, but I also think it’s pretty cool that my tweets are almost like a mini journal entry, and when I look back at them, I can remember exactly what I was doing or thinking at the time that I wrote it.
3. How has technology impacted your identity construction?
Because I don’t belong to any social networking sites other than twitter, it is hard to say how technology has impacted my identity. I am pretty much the same person, regardless of the technology I am using. I can see how a lot of people’s identities may differ when comparing the person they are on Facebook and the person they are on Weebly, but since the majority of technology I use is related to my academic life, I can only identify with that area. Though, I will say that there are plenty of times that I’ve had to censor myself on twitter for the purposes of this class. I think it’s possible that I would like Twitter a bit more if I knew I could write something without having to worry what my professor might think about it.
It wasn’t until recently that I understood just how much technology has impacted my writing. I always viewed technology to be more of a convenience (or at times, inconvenience, depending on what I’m trying to do) than anything else. Before taking this class, I viewed technology as a tool that allowed me to quickly complete my writing tasks and easily access information. I had very little experience with blogging and tweeting, so I had no idea how much they truly could impact my writing.
One of the main reasons my writing has been impacted by technology is because I have become so much more aware of my audience. Although I have always considered my audience in past writing assignments, I knew that in the end, my only real audience was my professor; therefore, I adjusted my writing in order to please whoever was grading my paper. Now, sites like Twitter and Weebly have made me really evaluate everything I say because my audience extends far beyond the classroom.
I have always been an extremely private (or as Stites would say, “mysterious”) person, and have never been all that comfortable with exposing anything personal about myself. I’ve never been a member on Facebook or Myspace, personal dating sites, or anything else related to social networking or blogging, and because of that, it has taken me some time to warm up to the idea that my words are out there for the world to see. Even when I look at my tweets, I see that a lot of them are not things that I have said; rather, they’re other’s quotes that I used to convey certain emotions I was feeling at the time. For example, there were a lot of times when I was feeling extremely sad because I was thinking about my dad, but because I was not willing to be vulnerable and expose those feelings, I used quotes that I have come across over the years, to express my real emotions. Although I did my best to go with the flow, it just isn’t in my personality to constantly share my feelings with complete strangers.
While I have come to appreciate technology, and all that it has to offer, reading Rock My Network has reinforced any negative feelings I may have had towards the social networking community by proving just how ridiculous some of it can be. I know I can sound a little cynical, and I my intentions are not to offend the people within that community, but social networking just isn’t for me.
Though I am not all that crazy about Twitter, and it’s taken some time to get used to blogging, I am glad that I have been forced to experiment with both, because forcing me out of my comfort zone has allowed me to grow as a writer.
2. How has technology connected or made you mindful of your writing and place?
One way technology has made me more mindful of my writing is because it allows me evaluate and assess what ist is that I hafe said, which can have both positive and negative effects on my writing. When I read what others have written, it can help to confirm something I have said, but it can also cause me to second guess myself and feel less confident about what I have written. Technology allows me to see what other people have to say and to gain a different perspective on certain topics, which in turn helps me to further develop my own ideas.
At first, I had a difficult time understanding how I was going to find my place just through tweeting about random observations. It wasn’t until I tweeted for about a month, that I began to notice a repetend within my tweets. Though I have mentioned before that I am not a huge fan of twitter, I will admit that I like the fact that I can look back at something I tweeted months ago and use it as inspiration for my writing. not only that, but I also think it’s pretty cool that my tweets are almost like a mini journal entry, and when I look back at them, I can remember exactly what I was doing or thinking at the time that I wrote it.
3. How has technology impacted your identity construction?
Because I don’t belong to any social networking sites other than twitter, it is hard to say how technology has impacted my identity. I am pretty much the same person, regardless of the technology I am using. I can see how a lot of people’s identities may differ when comparing the person they are on Facebook and the person they are on Weebly, but since the majority of technology I use is related to my academic life, I can only identify with that area. Though, I will say that there are plenty of times that I’ve had to censor myself on twitter for the purposes of this class. I think it’s possible that I would like Twitter a bit more if I knew I could write something without having to worry what my professor might think about it.
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