Reyes, Dalila

Instr. Gross

English 103

May 13, 2011

The Take Over of Social Media

          “Is this another one of your life stories?” is what I hear every time I begin a conversation with my friend and until recently found out the reasoning behind it.  I was rudely informed that my small comments, ornate least what I think are small comments, always turn into large anecdotes.  It has become so  bad that at times he prefers to not even know the information even if it is in regards to him.  I was very upset when this “life story” comment began, but I have learned to understand and realize that I indeed make everything into the longest story possible.  There are many times in which I will speak to a friend in regards to certain issue and let that very same person relay the same message to someone else.  My reasoning behind it is knowing that the first person will shorten the information to only the most essential points.  The comment goes from being three minutes long, to shortened in a matter of seconds.  Another fact that makes this attribute terrible is that my job consists of a lot or re-iterating of information.  As a watch my coworkers relay the same information, I take note that their sixty second check-ins take sixty seconds unlike my three to five minute speech.  I am a very complex person that does not leave to leave out a single detail or information, therefore, I am no different when I comes to most social medias. 

          With the rapid advance of technology, there are many ways in which to communicate.  It is no longer dependent upon hand writing or phone.  Through text message, I am not as detailed at times as I normally would like to be.  Reason being is that typing with my two thumbs is not the most comfortable thing to do.  I understand that phones, just like mine, have been enhanced with an actual key board, yet this technology doesn’t really reduce the amount of thumb usage one has to make.  Therefore my messages stay short and very limited in detail.  If detail is crucial to the comprehension of the sentence,  I will begin abbreviating and omitting  words throughout the sentence.  On the other hand, social media through the computer produce’s another type of communication style within me.  For example, if I was writing to a friend on Facebook, I would not hesitate to include every single detail within my story.  The device in which I use to communicate through Facebook is my laptop and comparing those keys to a cell phones keys, a laptop is much easier to type with.  Not to mention I have had years of practice.  I believe it is easier to express my self through a computer due to the typing skill I have acquired over the years.  The differences in styles are time dependent as I consider texting to be more time consuming.  One might comment that texting and how fast one can text, has become a skill as not many have the same ability.  Yet this society continues to become more and more dependent of technology of small devices, that perhaps the question: How many words per minute can you text?, might be found on a job application in the future.