Good Afternoon Readers! Moving on to the part 2 of this topic.
You may first take a look at the picture below.
You can see from the above conversation involved three people, that is me, friend A and friend B. While friend A and friend B do not know each other, friend A started asking if the food in the picture tastes good. I used the word "dun" which mean do not in formal written form of English. When I am using the online media or the social network, I would use online slang and also short forms of the words.
Incorporated with smiley inside the conversation.
After awhile, ten minutes after friend A commented on this post, friend B joined the conversation by giving his knowledge of Japanese words and create new meaning to interpret the food.
Towards the second last post of this conversation, friend A uses hyperlink to direct us to YouTube, The clip is about the same product in the picture, the local Japanese make the marshmallow and videotaped the process of making it.
In this case, Facebook really changes our way of thinking. We do not only rely on our own knowledge (for instance, my friend's knowledge in Japanese) but also make use of some external references (The YouTube link) to create new meaning.
After she posted this YouTube link, I went on YouTube and watch it, so after this my comment was directing back to the YouTube video which makes others difficult to understand if they haven't take a look at the video.
Incorporated with smiley inside the conversation.
After awhile, ten minutes after friend A commented on this post, friend B joined the conversation by giving his knowledge of Japanese words and create new meaning to interpret the food.
Towards the second last post of this conversation, friend A uses hyperlink to direct us to YouTube, The clip is about the same product in the picture, the local Japanese make the marshmallow and videotaped the process of making it.
In this case, Facebook really changes our way of thinking. We do not only rely on our own knowledge (for instance, my friend's knowledge in Japanese) but also make use of some external references (The YouTube link) to create new meaning.
After she posted this YouTube link, I went on YouTube and watch it, so after this my comment was directing back to the YouTube video which makes others difficult to understand if they haven't take a look at the video.
The good thing about Facebook is to share our life and views without difficulties, we can tag our friends to tell them what happening now! We can also contribute to the conversation in real time.
The only concern is we can edit and delete the comments all the time. If we want to use parts of the conversation as a prove or show it to friends, we need to do a screenshot to "preserve" the evidence. Facebook also leaves evidence about when you get on Facebook, for example friends see you commenting on a post but not replying in the inbox. That creates problem of trust in the virtual world which is very different from the communicative approach in real life. Because of the causal way of talking on Facebook, we care less about grammar and the syntax of English that leads to deterioration of English level in written form.
Next time I am going to talk about something new! Stay tuned and subscribe to my blog! Thanks a lot for reading, see you next time!
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Jen x
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