Hello Bloggers,
So, today in my English Class, we were discussing communities. One of our assignments was to construct a list of different communities that we belong to. Being the ever diligent student, I made a huge tree-like graph of all the different groups and subgroups I belong to…The human race, several ethnic groups, religious groups, the college I attend, my area of study, clubs, likes, dislikes, et cetera. What I couldn’t add before this very moment, though, is that I also belong to the Blogging Community. Before taking a college English class, although I’d glanced at quite a few blogs, I never thought of “blogging” as a genre. In fact, I would call myself blogging illiterate!
Apparently, blogging is a huge part of everyday life now – the era of technology constantly evolving. First, it was, “you have to computer savvy,” then it was, “you have to be internet savvy,” and now, not only do people have to be able to use Microsoft works, read/write emails, and use the Google browser to succeed in life, school, and jobs, but we have now entered the world of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Blogging all of which take the place of photo albums, resumes, and diaries – Personally, I liked keeping those things private…I don’t want people seeing my humiliating pictures of birthdays-past where my mom thought it would be funny to smoosh my face into the cake; nor my 7th grade diary entries about how enamored I was with the guy who sat in front of me in my history class. Oh well, such is life when taboos are redefined as normalcy.
Here’s a few things to think about, though. Who says we have to blog, twitter, or create Facebook profiles to be literate and why do people feel the need to belong to this community?
Here’s a list of a few things I feel have changed in American Society due to the redefining of literacy (computer literacy):
· Dating/Making Friends
· Researching/ Education
· Politics
· Vocabulary/Grammar
· Letter writing
· Job/College Applications
· Recruiting
· Gossiping
· Shopping
· Jobs
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I totally agree with you, when you said that you weren't a part of the blogging community until this semester. I wasn't either. Of course I had heard about blogging, but I had never even read one, until we were assigned to look over different types of blogs in order to see how we wanted to structure our own personal blogs.
ReplyDeleteI also agree when you say that society says that we need to be blogging savvy. I feel that everything that goes on in this world, is discussed in a blog in some form or another.
I have seen these topics myself range from presidential elections, to heated discussions about Twilight (Team Jacob vs. Team Edward). Some blogs are very political and scholarly, while some, take the format of a note passed between best friends in the back of a classroom-a very lax comnfort zone.