Communication Style?

Evaluate your own communication style. Umm? I haven’t really thought about having a writing style at all online. But I guess I do. I am a very personable person so I would assume that that comes out in my writing, especially towards close friends. I like to use a lot of smiley and exclamation marks! My texts always have smiley’s somewhere in them. Online messages are usually somewhat personal, depends who I’m typing to. I am not up to date on all the abbreviations and lingo of texting so I am sure that is seen in my writing, and I also prefer to get the correct meaning out of my words so I don’t think I’d use it even if I did know it.  Younger people that I text, like my cousins, probably realize that. My youngest sister is 18 so she uses more lingo then I, and I learn most of it from her and my younger cousins. When writing, I feel like I can write a story and I do, so it is never to just get the point across. Writing for me is much more, it’s an expression itself and it is free. My online writing, emails, texting, this blog, is just random thoughts yet somehow organized. I try not to write when I am mad, well online anyways. If I do my word choice is very blunt and I seem to cause more problems for myself then my original anger. My closest friends have found this out and notices when my communication changes. It is almost like putting my foot in my mouth when I read my messages after I have cooled down. That is one of the reasons I avoid typing when I’m mad, it gets me into trouble. There is a sense of freedom to express ANYTHING and everything through my computer, it doesn’t talk back to tell me that I’m overreacting. The power of words!

My different styles of writing depend on the mood I’m in at the moment I am writing and to whom I’m writing to. My writing style is pretty much the same I think even when I’m mad. A lot of the reading material in chapter four is new to me. I never realized how many words are shortened. I just spell them out. In some of the messages I have read, I remember thinking, “they are being lazy today not spelling the word out.” I never realized that it had its own language. I know the basics like, LOL, TTYL, LMAO, L8R, and btw (which took me awhile to figure out). I’m just not into shortening words I guess. I rather write it out then use symbolisms. I do, however, catch myself writing papers for class and write “u” instead of “you.” I do catch myself though, that’s the important thing. It is the only word I shortening a lot. There might be more but I can’t think of any now.  Hopefully my style of writing is interesting and not boring, that’s all I can hope for!