Writing is something I like to do. I like to go into the past, think about stuff that I’d like to write about and write it down on a paper. The environment in which I write in can also depict how well I write. For example, while writing this one of my friends called me to catch up with me and I stopped at “write it down on a paper” for like 30 minutes and completely lost my train of thought. Sometimes, I need to be in my room with some sound like music or someone to talk to, in order to write properly. Other times I need to be in a school environment because at home I feel too lazy, too attracted to my bed to really write. At times, I feel uncomfortable doing work in my house because of how easily distracted I am so I’d just get to school a little early to do my work.

Nicholas Carr explains in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” some negative effects of technology. He says that he feels as if somebody is tinkering with his brain. I understand the feeling described in the reading, but I personally do not feel the same.

I’ve never been a reader. I would have books, but I just wasn’t interested in them. My mom would tell me not to play games too much, to read a book instead but I felt like “why waste my time reading a book when I can be having fun doing something else?” I just cannot focus on a book. Sometimes, reading a book for class can be engaging, I feel like I’m starting to like a book. I believe that the idea of a book that I like ending eventually is what makes me not want to finish. I would love to read books, but they must have multiple parts to it, like Percy Jackson. I loved Percy Jackson because when I finished the first one, I found out there were like 4 more after, along with 2 movies, so its like the story never had an end. After that series, its like if reading just became boring to me.

A writing technology Dennis Baron discussed in From Pencils to Pixels is the computer. The computer allows people of all ages to write easier. I believe that using a computer, I am able to write alot better than I can when I am writing on a paper. On a computer, I am simply typing my thoughts, whereas on paper, I have to constantly click my pen/pencil to make sure I am actually writing, along with erasing or crossing out mistakes. Also, when I write a lot, my hands tend to hurt and sweat alot and I don’t like that.

Using a computer to write is not only more convenient for me, but it also allows me to do research as I write. Sometimes while writing a paper in high school, I’d forget how to spell a word, or forget the definition of a word. My high school was very strict on the no phone rule, so I’d have to just find something else to write instead. Using a computer to write, however, allows me to search up a definition of a word, or type a word in the way I think its spelt, and Google will give me the definition of the word, along with an example on how the word is used, and also correct my spelling.