When writing in any platform, whether it’s in a notebook or on your blog online, audience is always important factor. It certainly has an effect on what you are going to write and how you are going to write it. I certainly write a lot. Writing in school is the most common reason. From research papers to short stories to an article for the school publication. When it is not for academic purposes, I enjoy having my own version of a blog. Not so much like a formal blog, but on social media like Instagram. I mainly write whatever that comes to mind on my spare Instagram account that is only limited to my close friends.

When it comes to writing for school, I assume for it to be public. I know what my intended audience is and I build upon that. During the previous semester, I took a communications course where I had to write and deliver different types of speeches and monologues weekly. I don’t know my audience/classmates on a personal level, but I do have a sense of what they might be looking to hear in my speech. I try to write a speech that interest the general public that is my class. I don’t include anything that wouldn’t feel right to my fellow classmates to hear nor my professor. So, there is definitely a shift in the way I communicate in public writing.

In terms of writing on my own social media platforms, they tend to be curved to my intended audience. That is my followers on Instagram, my friends on Facebook and etc. They are not 100% parallel to the style I portray myself in class delivering a speech in comparison. I can say that the things I post online is not something I would prefer my parents to see, therefore this leans towards the more private side.

There are implications to why one might want to move from a private to a public locations. One reason is to expand your audience. Having more people listen to what you might have to say can possibly influence what you have in mind. Possibly for the better. One can get a wider variety of feedback instead of the same group. A public location also allows for whatever you are writing to spread. If attention is what one is looking for, then it’s definitely good to go public.

In conclusion, these are the public and private writing situations I find myself and for many reasons is the way it is.