Journal 5 Eric Calderon

Honestly, I feel that it depends on what I’m writing. If I’m writing in one of my writing elective class, I’m entirely conscious of anyone else besides my professor reading my short stories without my consent. And even with that, I wouldn’t ever really expect for anything that I’ve written to be published in a newspaper or magazine. However, in terms of what I’m putting on social media in forms of Facebook posts or Tweets, and how that can be spread throughout the world, absolutely. The best example that I can think of when this really bit me in the rear end was about two or three years ago. I responded to a Lakers fan site, and apparently I didn’t understand some kind of inside joke, so essentially I looked like an idiot. The only reason I knew I looked like an idiot, was because I got over a thousand responses from other Laker fans. It got to the point where I had to turn off the notifications on the app itself, because my phone was absolutely going off. In context, it was an honest mistake that got completely blown out of proportion, but that’s not what it was circulated as. Even looking back at what I said, I actually see everyone else’s point to where my tweet might not make me sound like the most “informed” Laker fan. Regardless, it's kind of scary how quickly had to how many people writing can spread to in a matter of seconds. I think that can be translated across multiple mediums. What I think of is John Lennon and his music. Even Lennon, himself has admitted during his lifetime, to the fact that the way his music had been severely misinterpreted and at some times completely taken out of context. But on the other hand, there are interviews with him saying that after he went back and listened to some of the songs that he had written, he had realized new meanings that he got from his songs. For example his song How Do You Sleep?, which was a clear message to Paul McCartney after the breakup of The Beatles, he said that he went back and realized that he was actually speaking about himself.