In Andrew Sullivan's, "Why I Blog", he explains blogging is a free form of writing. It does not require revising and editing. A good blogger tries to connect to the reader by blogging on the topic that shares the same idea and opinions with the reader rather than going against to their idea. In Mona Eltahawy's, "Twitterholics Anonymous", she talks about her love and hate relationship with the Twitter. She loves the Twitter for the fact that she can connect to the world on the other hand, she hates the Twitter because she overuses it that lead her to become addicted to it.
Both authors emphasize on the same idea that blogging and twitting helps them connect to the world. Andrea states, "On my blog,my readers and I experienced 9/11 together, in real time. I can look back and see not just how I responded to the event, but how I responded to it at 3:47 that afternoon. And at 9:46 that night. There is a vividness to this immediacy that cannot be revealed by print" (157). He explains that on the day he and his reader experienced 9/11, he blogged on it and his reader responded to his …show more content…
In her reading she talks about the positive and negative effects of Twitter. I feel the same that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook can be beneficial as well as disturbing. Eltahawy writes, “I first learned of the bomb attack, which took place a few minutes into the New Year against a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, via Twitter” (164). She says as soon as a bomb attack took place, it was already updated on twitter and thus how she came to know about the attack. In the blink of an eye, you can get the recent updates regarding any news from twitter. Likewise, when the earthquake hit Nepal on 25th April 2015, we did not know about it until I saw my newsfeed on Facebook. All of my friends’ status was about earthquake. That’s how I came to know about earthquake and started inquiring about my family in
Both authors emphasize on the same idea that blogging and twitting helps them connect to the world. Andrea states, "On my blog,my readers and I experienced 9/11 together, in real time. I can look back and see not just how I responded to the event, but how I responded to it at 3:47 that afternoon. And at 9:46 that night. There is a vividness to this immediacy that cannot be revealed by print" (157). He explains that on the day he and his reader experienced 9/11, he blogged on it and his reader responded to his …show more content…
In her reading she talks about the positive and negative effects of Twitter. I feel the same that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook can be beneficial as well as disturbing. Eltahawy writes, “I first learned of the bomb attack, which took place a few minutes into the New Year against a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, via Twitter” (164). She says as soon as a bomb attack took place, it was already updated on twitter and thus how she came to know about the attack. In the blink of an eye, you can get the recent updates regarding any news from twitter. Likewise, when the earthquake hit Nepal on 25th April 2015, we did not know about it until I saw my newsfeed on Facebook. All of my friends’ status was about earthquake. That’s how I came to know about earthquake and started inquiring about my family in