Marrone 1 Nicholas Marrone Mrs. Raymond 9/siis UWRT 1103 ‘The #Struggle The modem era is one of instant communication and social media. With today’s extraordinary technology, people from different countries can communicate with each other instantly. This has completely changed everyone’s literacy narrative. When I was growing up, technology was mostly readily available. For example, computers were starting to become popular ayf phones went from being large flip phones to a smartphones. Now, in 2015, Woe fers as well as phones have become extremely powerful and portable. Technology has ted my literacy narrative in every way, from how I talk to how I write. am a member of ‘various social media sites such as facebook, twitter, Instagram, and vine. From these sites T can basically know what everyone else is doing and the story behind them. However, this is not the WD= Wwe OL VUGOAVE CUE 1¢ way I talk and write. This is because people, \ We point. The point is that these sites have hanged yh 0 people on these websites use slang terms and abbreviations frequently. Since [have beena \_)\4r ious member for so long, I too have started to implement these abbreviations and improper terms into™ my vocabulary. Another chunk of my literacy narrative comes from teaching everyone in my family how to use a computer and smartphone. I remember when T was (0, built my fist computer and installed everything on it, From this point, I set out to learn how to become “literate” in computer. Basically, I taught myself how to browse the web, play games, and use Microsoft programs. After this I translated what I learned to my family and became the IT guy of the family. As you can tell, technology was a huge influence on my literacy narrative. I became o”Marrone 1 proficient in Microsoft programs at a young age and they became vital as T aged and school progressed. “ Z