My First Blog

I’ve never been a big fan of blogs. The only time I really write electronically if either Facebook, email, or on a forum. I’ll usually post a few status updates per week on Facebook, I’ll email very occasionally to a professor or friend, and I used to post a lot on a few forums. I believe that my writing does change when writing electronically, but not just because I’m typing but more for the audience that will be reading what I’m writing. Like on Facebook when I’m posting how I feel about my friend’s picture where he’s laying in the snow without a shirt on, it usually very informal compared to say emailing a professor about some project that I have questions on. If I have a question about how my car is stalling out I’ll go to my car’s forum and post it so someone will hopefully help me out, it would be somewhere in between informal and formal. Sometimes I’ll I’m someone, and that style of writing is just as lazy as my texting. The only time I really write with pen and paper is when it is some sort of research paper I’m writing for a class, so it’s always formal. Usually when I write electronically Google chrome will spell check my words so my spelling is always perfect. I do seem to read over what I write electronically compared to pen and paper because my hand writing is terrible, so my electronic writing tends to be formed very well. I’m usually distracted while writing on my computer, be it music, texting, Facebook, Amazon, TV, or Craigslist. So writing on my computer will usually take slightly longer than if I was writing on pen and paper in a classroom. So as I see it, my writing style mostly depends on its audience more than whether or not it’s electronic or pen and paper.