Journal Response

           Mobility has really only changed writing in the way that it is spread out to other readers and the method that we choose to produce our writing. Instead of the traditional pen and paper or notebook, technology has enabled us to type out our thoughts and information we want to keep in our devices and given us the ability to share that piece of writing if we’d like, to a network of other people. Before mobility, it was difficult to share our writing with others because there wasn’t a fast way us sending it out. The fastest way would have been by the mail, but even that could take a few days to arrive to the destination. This has drastically improved the circulation of our writing and its spreadability.

Now with social media, it literally takes seconds to write something down (let’s say on twitter) and have that tweet posted to your profile and it will be sent to your followers and have the ability to be shared by hundreds of people within minutes. Also, with mobility there are different forms that the writing can be produced. For instance, there can be writing in the form of blog posts, regular texts, emails, chain letters, iMessages, and etc. There are so many forms of writing nowadays that most of us actually can talk to the same person in more than one form of medium at the same time. I’m guilty of doing this but sometimes I actually write to my friends through text messages and Snapchat messages at the same time, just because I can and almost always they’re completely different conversations.

 In addition to that, with the new technology we have, others have the ability to edit and comment on our writing on platforms online and social media sites. This has changed the way we produce our writing because we usually write the way we write depending on the audience and if others can comment on it, we tend to filter some things out or not write truly what we’d really like to say in written words.