Texts, blogs, emails and Facebook posts are affecting other kinds of writing – mostly for the good
Email
kicked off an unprecedented expansion in writing. We’re now in the most
literate age in history. I remember in 2003 asking someone, “What’s a
blog?” By 2006, the analysis firm NM Incite had identified 36 million
blogs worldwide; five years later, there were 173 million. Use of online
social media rises every month. In fact, writing is overtaking speech
as the most common form of interaction. Ofcom,
the UK’s communications regulator, says Britons now text absent friends
and family more often than they speak to them on the phone or in
person.
