Monday, March 28, 2011
Blog 9
Whenever I read people’s blog posts I rarely look at the names of the people who posted it. I just read the post and then look at the name when I need to put their name in my comment so I don’t really notice any differences between the men and women who post things. Huffaker and Calvert(2005) found that females used more graphical accents, including emoticons, to express emotion in their discourse than males and that females use more words to express their emotions while males generally hide their feelings (what a surprise!). Males rarely use emoticons in conversations with other males, but do use them with females, while females use an equal amount of emoticons in both male and female conversations Women are also quicker to text and send longer texts then males who generally send shorter text messages just to get the main point across and leave out useless things that women usually include in their text messages. They also found that females, on the internet, use more pleasant words while men use harsher words and are more brash. I don’t think that that is evident in our blog for class even though Grasmuck, Martin, and Zhao (2009) found that the internet provides an outlet for the expression of one’s “hidden selves” because we are all trying to be our “student” character. I haven’t really thought about who people are or what they look like because it is harder to determine in an online class.
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This blog is probably not a good representation of normal blogging posts. Most people follow a blog and post messages because they have a personal interest in the blog. I would think that if we were told we no longer have to make posts to this blog, the posts would stop. Most, if not all, of us are not here to reveal our hidden selves, we are here because we have to be. Not that that is a bad thing, just the posts will not flow as freely than if we were here under different circumstances.
ReplyDeleteI agree women are pretty long wind when it comes to texting. The best thing to do is pick someone you don't know put both share the same intrest.
ReplyDeleteI agree, i think the text is more important than the gender of the person that is doing the texting. I believe the information that is sending forth a messages is at value, then the person sex.
ReplyDeleteThe more I read about this topic and online identity and being able to read into the cues I started thinking about how the virtual environment really sets the scene to how people will behave.
ReplyDeleteI defiantly know what they mean when they are talking about the text messages. Also a quick read through on facebook will back just about any claim to the harshness of men and women tones and emotions. The reading was very accurate.
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