Reading Response #1

Many young people assume that the only ways to communicate with someone is by using technology and the quickest ways to communicate. People don’t realize that there are more ways and older to communicate with others but they take longer to have a response. In our century it has become as easy as calling, emailing, chatting, texting and using Facebook/Myspace. It shows how technology is making our writing change as we keep finding new ways and easier to communicate. In the Clive Thompson’s article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” he talks about a project that was been made in Stanford University. Lunsford collected 14,672 different writing samples from her English class. Lunsford probably expected to find smiling faces, half cut out words and abbreviations since she was really surprise of what she found. From all the samples, that she got she didn’t find any signs of texting talk, the ability to killing our ability to write in an academic paper. Thompson apparently assumes young people today are reviving and pushing our writing into new directions.

My own view is that technology is changing our ways of writing and how we write. Many of the writing done by young people are being done on texting, chatting, and web pages. Lunsford apparently assumes that young people today write far more than any generation before them. It is all true since there is many socializing done with teenagers. Many of the teenagers do socializing in the quickest way, were they normally would use. It is easy for our generation to see writing in our technology done in popular sites were everyone in our generation use. For example, when I had a phone I would literally text all day. I would reply more than 200 texts per day and not including the times I would chat in a web page. I know a days even spend hours in MySpace and Facebook writing to conversations and changing my statues every day. I spend more writning time in the technology than in writing in school. Beacuse your writing into something that you enjoy doing, on my point of view. I think that our generation mainly uses more writing with the technology that we know how because it’s a way of communicating to others who are long distance to you. I apparently think it’s for me because it’s a faster way of communicating to others faster and quicker. The issue is important because our generation is writing in more ways were generations back then didn’t. In my opinion I believe the older generations sees it wrong because of the way that young students talk during conversations.