Mandatory Blog Post #1

I found The article on new literacy by Clive Thompson to be quite interesting. I was enthralled to see such a positive point of view on the internet and its users. He acknowledged the typical points of view about the negative effects and some of them may be true, but was able to find the ever-growing positives. The typical opinion about internet users is that they don't think when they type or read this 'trivial' garbage. Many fear that it is changing the way humans think and write, and it is, but not in a bad way. People are reading now more than ever because of the internet and are learning about audience, timing, and appeal even before coming to college. They do not know that now, but when they have to use it, they would already of had experience.