Everything in my world seems somewhat instantaneous. If I am ever bored I can immediately pick up my phone and rectify the problem. If I am ever uncertain of something I can pick up my phone and find an answer. If I ever want to be in contact with someone across the world, I can pick up my phone and call that individual. My attention span seems to get shorter and shorter with the more apps I download on my phone most of which are developed to produce dopamine rushes and serotonin boosts in users making them highly addictive. This instantaneous nature of technology inherently contradicts my personal style of writing which is slower, calculated, introspective, and time-consuming. When I sit down to write anything not on technology or in digital communities, it takes time and I enjoy the process of sitting with an idea, organizing my thoughts, and in turn figuring out the best way to phrase these thoughts in order to effectively get my point across. In terms of my relationship with digital writing, the process looks vastly different from my normal writing process. It is far more instantaneous and less thought out. I forgo punctuation and other formalities as we all do because that is simply the discourse of most digital writing. However, to some degree, the omittance of such formalities and specificities in digital writing feels lazy and feels like it’s giving into this culture of everything needing to be instantaneous and aligning with short attention spans. The one constant in both forms of writing seems to be how big of a role audience plays. In digital spaces, a text to my friend would look very different from an Instagram caption which I may be more meticulous and careful with since it is existing for the public to see. Similarly, my notes and annotations on a piece of writing would look very different from an argumentative essay I were to write for a professor. However, the difference is that my informal physical writing is still far more thought out than my informal digital writing. There are so many advantages and things I enjoy about digital writing, the biggest thing being the convenience and ease it presents. There is something nice about not feeling obligated to write perfectly but I think that this ease that digital writing lends also can foster bad writing habits at times. This is because I employ the use of digital writing far more often than I write outside of digital communities so I find myself getting used to spelling “your” as “ur”, and “heyyyy” instead of “hey”, etc. These writing habits that I’m building arent good for my formal writing skills however I use the digital world of writing so much more that these habits seem so natural. Overall, I think digital writing is something to be celebrated and utilized at large because of how pervasive it is and how it seems to reach far more people considering the nature of technology than formal writing can. I just want to be aware of the habits I am building when I partake in the digital space and want to ensure that I am not regressing as a writer because of those poor habits.