What the author is trying to say with their heuristic questions, is to take what plan to compose or post to what where platform and make sure all bases you want to cover with your post are covered in said post. Basically think about what your going to compose and make sure it has the impact you want. Where as Wysocki’s ideals were about what platform to use so the message or impact you want to covey is not only better understood because of the platform you chose to post it on, but how the visual aspect of the platform can help emphasize that. This may help in finding the right platform to post on, but not what to actually post and how much that post will actually impact what you want. Today, however, numerous things need to be taken into account in addition to these two authors ideas. Two thing of note I will mention are ‘not thinking about it’ and when to properly take backlash/criticism. First, what I mean by ‘not thinking about it’ is the idea of just kind of posting whatever random and outrageous thing that’s on your mind. This kind of mind set works best for personal accounts or ones trying to convey a personality, for example posting “Do I have to watch the 53 other super bowels to get this one, or is it a new story line.” Something like that is just a clever/nonsensical post that got a lot of attention. Second if you think too hard on how others will react to what you post you should not be posting on the internet in the first place. What I mean is that nowadays any post made, especially by a company of sorts, will be met with at least some negativity or criticism. What’s important is to recognize when that criticism is justified and should be addressed. Making an apology post because one person didn’t like it is ridiculous, intern calling that one person out and being hateful towards them is no good either. This time on the internet is a time of extremes and sadly many people are toxic enough to try and lash out at anything they can, recognize these kinds of people to make sure they don’t egg you on.
The main purpose of the article is to make sure what you post has the impact that your looking for, while also being considerate of how this might effect others positively and negatively. Kairotic inventiveness, while not immediately mentioned in the article until the end, incorporated an overall theme of the article in my mind. The whole idea is that you should think of what your about to write and share with the world before you do it, this felt like the overall goal of this reading. I can’t pin down an exact quote because the majority of this section talks about it, but when the author mentions re-composition on Twitter. This stuck out to me because I think it goes deeper, they mention that twitter allows for people to retweet a post that gets popular, giving credit to that person who made the post originally and getting them more recognition. On the other hand though, sometimes when something is said and get popular on one platform, another user of another platform will “re-composition” it for their own. So while I think they mean that re-composition in the twitter sense means that your post is getting more attention thanks to how twitter spreads its popular tweets, I find it kind of funny how that can also happen if someone uses that same post on another site without crediting the original. This reading was a good incite into how much we have evolved when it come to posting things on the internet. While I still agree with most of what the author mentioned, I do think that some aspects of how people act on the internet, with the whole anonymous vibe, can definitely rendered some of the questions they mentioned pointless.
Alex Young 