This is almost exactly identical to what I mentioned earlier. When you are well rounded and have skills in many areas, you are more beneficial to a company and therefore more people will want to hire you.

This is true. When an employer sees that a possible candidate for a new job opening has experience in multiple areas pertaining to the field that they are in, it makes them more likely to be hired.

Graphic Design is an extremely useful skill, especially if you are a writer for a digital platform. For example, if you want to start up a website, if you have experience in graphic design, you have everything you need to start up your own website.

This is true. A large majority of the news that I get comes from social media platforms like Instagram, TIkTok and Facebook. Alot of times, I even find that I use TikTok if I want to search something up, and Google is becoming less frequently used.

Nowadays, it's extremely rare to see paper newspapers. Since everybody carries a smartphone, you can obtain LIVE news updates in a matter of seconds, so paper newspapers are kind of unnecessary.

Nowadays, I think people are a lot more reluctant to pay to read articles, especially since now there are so many other ways to obtain information, it's easier to just go to a different website for information.

I hadn't even thought about this. What defines "writing?" Nowadays, especially with AI like SIRI, and Alexa, we can even write by simply speaking to the AI, which will type out our message for us.

This is related to everything that we see nowadays. Although AI is an amazing advancement that we have made in technology, AI has a lot of pros and cons that need to be considered, especially in regards to copyright, private information, etc.

I hadn't thought about that. We write for the web even when we are posting a picture and writing a small caption on social media. I bet if we had access to a storage of everything we've written for the internet, the list would be huge.

When I was in seventh and eighth grade, I took a coding class where we learned quite a bit about HTML, coding, and how it is used in the structure and formatting of web pages.

This is a double edged sword. Of course, it's great to have free speech and be able to speak your mind freely on whatever given topic you want, but this can also be a dangerous thing if it is placed into the hands of the wrong individual.

This is true. Compared to a static medium like a paperback copy of a book, which takes time to reach the audience, an online source is delivered right to the hand of the audience as soon as the author clicks send and publishes their work online.

Kind of like I mentioned in my other annotation, I think it's cool how dynamic mediums are constantly changing and adapting as our forms of communication change as we grow as a society.

This is extremely important! I of all people should know this. As Editor in Chief of the Pioneer magazine at Prairie State College, I have learned that it is vital to your success as a writer to know how to recognize and fix your mistakes. It takes time and practice, and maybe even a revision by a peer, but once you acquire the skill, it will GREATLY improve your writing.

Although thee are so many different styles of writing, especially on the internet, I think we can all agree in one way or another that knowing how to write professionally, whether it may be for a professional media outlet or even for a company website, is very important. Consider journalism. If a journalist working for the New York Times were to publish a story that was written in the style of something that came from Reddit, they would be fired immediately. Therefore, knowing how to differentiate when to use different writing styles is extremely important as a writer.

Wow. So basically, without the development of what we know now as "Web 2.0," we would have never had social media. Web 2.0 is what really pioneered and "birthed" major social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, etc.

Before reading this article, I had never heard of the terms "static" and "dynamic medium". I find it interesting how a static medium like ink on paper has been used for centuries and is one of the first forms of written communication in history. A dynamic medium on the the other hand, is like the internet; forever changing and evolving to adapt to the new forms of communication that are developed as we grow as a society.