Different Kind of Diary
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| (Valentine Gift Idea for you Daughter) |
The Diaries of the internet are greatly different to the diary
I had as a young child. I secretly wrote
in my personal diary and locked it away from the rest of the world. I never remember having any secrets that
would be worth locking away, but to me, it gave me a place where I internalised
my feelings. Change of technology bought
about from computers and the internet, changed the text and genres. The genre of texts consists of word choices
and how they are placed (Van Luyn, 2013). Genre is a set of conventional and highly
organised constraints and allows us to produce and understand texts (Van Luyn,
2013). Facebook users develop their online personas by
adding personal details, and then create in chronological order a diary of
their daily activities. Unlike the
written diary, there is an audience.
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| (under 13s signing up) |
The
conversations in my network are usually about how my friends are feeling, what
kind of day they are experiencing, what events they have been too, or are going
too. Some comments are optimistic and
some pessimistic. Most comments are made
in first person and include personal opinions and perspectives. The Status Update is used to record your diary
inputs and this can be traced back as far as your first text. There are generic rules or written behaviour
in my virtual network, some of them are, if someone post on your Facebook wall,
you are expected to respond – being honest and respectful is expected –
protecting yourself, do not give somebody ammunition to come back to you at a
later date – using common sense in your interactions and think about how your
post would look to a potential employer (live Science, 2013). A blog
is a personal diary, online writers produce personal, daily narratives, in
their internet texts, these writers produce texts that are recognizable, in
form, content, and style, as diary entries (McNeill, 2005).
Live Science. (2013). Top 10 Rules facebook. Retrieved from http://www.livescience.com/19999-top-10-
McNeill, L. (2003). Diary 2.0?: A Genre Moves from Page to Screen
Quarter of under 13s signed up to Social Media [image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.
Valentine Gift Idea for your Daughter [image]. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.babble.com
Van Luyn, A. (2013). BA1002: Our Space, Networks, narratives and making of Place, Lecture 6: Genre [video]. Retrieved from http://www.learnjcu.edu.au
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