Monday, February 4, 2008

Meat-space versus Cyberspace

I think writing in cyberspace is completely different than writing in meat space. When you are writing in general, you are doing it to get some sort of a reaction from your audience. It may be just to reveal information about a particular topic or to release feelings about a major event. When writing for these reasons in cyberspace by posting blogs of replying to topics, you are letting your feelings and responses be reviewed by others. Generally, everyone (unless the page is blocked or set to private) can get access to your page and read what you wrote about. Also, when writing on the Internet, your writings come up with many different search topics, meaning the audience can view many different opinions on the topic.
While writing for the real world aka "meat-space," the audience is different. Many things written in the real world can be acted out or read out loud by a news anchor. The media affects everything that is written in the real world. Television shows and movies all have lines that were written by writers but are not read by them. Credit is not given where is should be due. On the other hand, when writing books and novels in the meat space, many people can enjoy the writing but can not openly criticize or relate to it as they can do online.

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