A New Frontier for Social Media
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English Composition I
A New Frontier for Social Media
The evolution of speech and communication is amazing. From grunting and signing to Tweets and Social Media rants. There was a time when a quite Sunday afternoon on the front porch swing would have capped off a good long week. Now, people are bombarded thousands of times a day with commercials, popups and spam email, just to name a few. The horizon of modern day speech and communication is changing and not for the better it seems.
Something that is interesting and thought provoking is the idea behind Alex Wright’s statement from the essay, "Friending, Ancient or Otherwise", he states, "The more time we spend "talking" online, the less time we spend, well, talking. And as we stretch the definition of a friend to encompass people we may never actually meet, will the strength of our real-world friendships grow diluted as we immerse ourselves in a lattice of hyperlinked "friends"?” (Wright) This is the reality in which one lives today; it can be seen and heard every day. Whether it is listening to conversations on the local commuter train or reading resumes of a younger generation’s workforce, the disparities of an ever-changing orality are real. A conversation can hardly be held and not here the word "like" used almost every other word or when a resume come across the desk of a hiring manager and it has "text" language used in it (I want 2 work 4 u). It is mind-blowing that the applicant does not realize that this is unacceptable and what is even more shocking, is the individual usually does not understand why they should not receive the job because of this.
These changes can also be seen in the way people communicate via email. In the essay, "Euromail and Amerimail" by Eric Weiner, he explains the differences in emails in a simplistic manner but what really comes through, is the differences in culture. Weiner 's assessment of the American people and their electronic communications is
English Composition I
A New Frontier for Social Media
The evolution of speech and communication is amazing. From grunting and signing to Tweets and Social Media rants. There was a time when a quite Sunday afternoon on the front porch swing would have capped off a good long week. Now, people are bombarded thousands of times a day with commercials, popups and spam email, just to name a few. The horizon of modern day speech and communication is changing and not for the better it seems.
Something that is interesting and thought provoking is the idea behind Alex Wright’s statement from the essay, "Friending, Ancient or Otherwise", he states, "The more time we spend "talking" online, the less time we spend, well, talking. And as we stretch the definition of a friend to encompass people we may never actually meet, will the strength of our real-world friendships grow diluted as we immerse ourselves in a lattice of hyperlinked "friends"?” (Wright) This is the reality in which one lives today; it can be seen and heard every day. Whether it is listening to conversations on the local commuter train or reading resumes of a younger generation’s workforce, the disparities of an ever-changing orality are real. A conversation can hardly be held and not here the word "like" used almost every other word or when a resume come across the desk of a hiring manager and it has "text" language used in it (I want 2 work 4 u). It is mind-blowing that the applicant does not realize that this is unacceptable and what is even more shocking, is the individual usually does not understand why they should not receive the job because of this.
These changes can also be seen in the way people communicate via email. In the essay, "Euromail and Amerimail" by Eric Weiner, he explains the differences in emails in a simplistic manner but what really comes through, is the differences in culture. Weiner 's assessment of the American people and their electronic communications is
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