Everyone has heard of Facebook and
Twitter. They are worlds into
themselves. They have their own purpose…if
you can call some of their activity that and their own. But some people just can’t tell them apart. I
know my mother can’t. My parents haven’t exactly grasped the use of the
internet. I think she believes that’s it’s some version of spam.
What has happened to the use of
language? Has the internet really killed
it? One ‘lol’ too many has gone about
out in cyberspace. Who wants to go and
read blogs full of acronyms and hashtag? I find hashtags particularly annoying. One of the hardest things for a writer is to
remember the audience that they are writing for. Many people, not just writers want to read
blogs and posts that are written intelligently, blogs where they don’t have to
call their children or grandchildren to come translate. Good writing, in any genre, and any media
form is something that never goes out of style, as long as it’s not Fifty
Shades of Grey. That’s not good writing….
Nothing I have said here seems to
be new. It’s been seen everywhere, but
that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be repeated every so often.
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