Social Media and Writing Rough Draft
Social media is defined as: “forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1). People can use social media for all sort of reasons, some people use platforms like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with friends and followers and let them know about their life. Other people use social media for things like blogging and a place where they can get their writing out to the world. Nicholas Carr argues that Google is decreasing our attention span and our ability to concentrate on literary works. On the flip side, other …show more content…
This is especially true in countries like Turkey where freedom can be limited. The author Elif Shafak grew up in Turkey and experienced this firsthand. She defends social media and argues that she finds it important for writers from countries like hers. “It's easier for an American author, such as Jonathan Franzen, to lambast the social media and to demand that the Internet be strictly controlled and regulated. Coming from Turkey, I want the opposite” (Shafak para. 9). Shafak acknowledges the criticisms she has gotten from people about social media also. She knows that there is a dark side to the internet, and says that people should be careful how much time they spend on the internet. She does believe though that social media is important to her; especially twitter where she can tweet to her followers around the world in different languages, and talk about her books and ideas. Along with Shafak writing online, studies on Stanford students shows that they are writing more with the plethora of social media options out there. For example, Mark Otuteye, found academic writing boring, but wrote emails, blogs, and on social media (Haven 167). Otuteye used social media to voice his protest of Iraq in the form of poetry and reached a lot of people because of social media that would have been impossible …show more content…
People can use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and countless others to communicate with other people from all types of places. This can be great to have communication with far away family and friends instantly. Through these apps, as shown in Haven’s article, students are using these platforms to write more, and write creatively and personally. A countering argument that many people have (even those who readily support social media) is that people can be “fake” on their social media profiles. Shafak answers this by
Social media is defined as: “forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1). People can use social media for all sort of reasons, some people use platforms like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with friends and followers and let them know about their life. Other people use social media for things like blogging and a place where they can get their writing out to the world. Nicholas Carr argues that Google is decreasing our attention span and our ability to concentrate on literary works. On the flip side, other …show more content…
This is especially true in countries like Turkey where freedom can be limited. The author Elif Shafak grew up in Turkey and experienced this firsthand. She defends social media and argues that she finds it important for writers from countries like hers. “It's easier for an American author, such as Jonathan Franzen, to lambast the social media and to demand that the Internet be strictly controlled and regulated. Coming from Turkey, I want the opposite” (Shafak para. 9). Shafak acknowledges the criticisms she has gotten from people about social media also. She knows that there is a dark side to the internet, and says that people should be careful how much time they spend on the internet. She does believe though that social media is important to her; especially twitter where she can tweet to her followers around the world in different languages, and talk about her books and ideas. Along with Shafak writing online, studies on Stanford students shows that they are writing more with the plethora of social media options out there. For example, Mark Otuteye, found academic writing boring, but wrote emails, blogs, and on social media (Haven 167). Otuteye used social media to voice his protest of Iraq in the form of poetry and reached a lot of people because of social media that would have been impossible …show more content…
People can use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and countless others to communicate with other people from all types of places. This can be great to have communication with far away family and friends instantly. Through these apps, as shown in Haven’s article, students are using these platforms to write more, and write creatively and personally. A countering argument that many people have (even those who readily support social media) is that people can be “fake” on their social media profiles. Shafak answers this by