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This document discusses an online blog forum called rec.Motorcycles where motorcycle enthusiasts discuss their experiences riding motorcycles, share advice, and debate issues. The document notes that on online forums, people can pretend to be experts when they have little real experience, which can spread misinformation. However, it also acknowledges that such forums allow for easy sharing of wisdom between riders seeking advice or companionship from others with similar interests.

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rec.Motorcycles By August Levesque CMS 298/LSH 340
What are we talking about, here? This chapter in our reading reflects on the usage of an online blogosphere that many people use to discuss and relate upon their experiences and knowledge of motorcycles, and all that goes with them. Users discuss rides theyve taken, falls theyve had with and on their bikes, damage thats been caused and how to avoid it, and even arguments back and forth between users in regards to how to make sure the fuel tank doesnt take in too much oxygen. A major issue with blogs and the internet is the simple fact that via internet, people can be whomever they want. That is to say, one can pretend to be an expert on motorcycles, but could potentially be someone whos never even been on a bike, but someone thats incredible at copy-and-pasting information!
Our reading bases this chapter on media-centered techniques of analysis to describe and educate the reader on the rhetoric of this medium in our society. Within the internet, many users are looking for representations of reality, as though its something to fill a void in their everyday life. Many people become obsessed with the internet and their lifestyle online. There are even social problems and life-destroying events that occur due to online-based relationships (CatFish, people using fake images, or distorted images rather than showing their true selves). rec.Motorcycles is a blog that gives aid for motorcyclists that need wisdom from other riders, or even simply need the companionship of another rider.
Blogs can be used for the good helping others with simple tasks such as which motorcycle to buy, how often one is going to drop their bike, and what to prepare for before a long trip. But there are also times that it goes to the next level such as when someone creates a new identity and uses it to get close to another person. Luckily, in the rec.Motorcycle group, our examples dont include that! However, there are some high emotions when people disagree on a certain way to do something. Likewise, this contributor suggests a history of real experience which he pits against that of another contributor whom he is attacking: Then there is something wrong with your gasoline, your bikes, or both, because in ten years of owning and servicing bikes (for myself and many others), Ive never seen gas go so bad in a month of sitting that a bike wont start at all
With biker groups, trading stories and advice is common. My dad has always had a motorcycle, and always had a large group of friends that were fellow riders. Most of the time, theyd all get together and chat about life and everything else, but there were certainly times when someone was having an issue with their bike, and all the members would pitch in their ideas and thoughts. Of course, with this being in person, its much easier to know and guarantee that someone is being truthful about their knowledge. Online, however, its hard to decipher whether someone is copy and pasting or using something theyve heard through the grapevine instead of using their real-life experiences.
So How Does This Affect Us? With so many people searching for truth and reality online, is this changing how people interact? I believe its absolutely changing things! If someone only talks to a person online, where there are no face-to-face interactions and different things like smileys and emoticons available, how would this same relationship survive in reality? Ive certainly had a great friendship with a person over the internet, and then once I met them in person and we attempted to hang out, it was so incredibly awkward and neither of us knew what to say or how to act! Luckily, this was a situation where we were alike enough that we got past it. But how often do people fall in love and create bonds online that can be so easily broken with such a thing as real life?
This blog is a great example of an expositional text of rhetoric, because its used to argue and explain. These blogs are exactly that used to argue and explain ones point or view. Granted, this is again on the internet and may not necessarily follow all the guidelines of rhetoric. With the changing technology, rhetoric itself has changed drastically because it changes the simple way that people communicate. Maybe 10 years ago, not as many people had easy access of internet and computers it was still more of a luxury to have a computer and be able to readily have it available. There may have been blogs but they were things that were updated only occasionally, versus constant updates. Now-a-days, technology gives us the world at our fingertips literally! With smart phones and tablets, people can add to these blogs and view them by simply opening up an app or their mobile browser. Again, how has this changed the way that people communicate and build relationships? Its made things, in a way, easier. But at the same time, its made things more difficult because human interaction may feel different when face-to-face.
Its clear that this blog site is used by many to base their usage and motorcycle life on. Its easier to get a large amount of advice and/or grasp a concept easier when there are hundreds up people giving their interpretations or thoughts. Id say this site has helped many people to share their stories but also helped many people with their decisions and issues with their own motorcycles.

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  • 1. rec.Motorcycles By August Levesque CMS 298/LSH 340
  • 2. What are we talking about, here? This chapter in our reading reflects on the usage of an online blogosphere that many people use to discuss and relate upon their experiences and knowledge of motorcycles, and all that goes with them. Users discuss rides theyve taken, falls theyve had with and on their bikes, damage thats been caused and how to avoid it, and even arguments back and forth between users in regards to how to make sure the fuel tank doesnt take in too much oxygen. A major issue with blogs and the internet is the simple fact that via internet, people can be whomever they want. That is to say, one can pretend to be an expert on motorcycles, but could potentially be someone whos never even been on a bike, but someone thats incredible at copy-and-pasting information!
  • 3. Our reading bases this chapter on media-centered techniques of analysis to describe and educate the reader on the rhetoric of this medium in our society. Within the internet, many users are looking for representations of reality, as though its something to fill a void in their everyday life. Many people become obsessed with the internet and their lifestyle online. There are even social problems and life-destroying events that occur due to online-based relationships (CatFish, people using fake images, or distorted images rather than showing their true selves). rec.Motorcycles is a blog that gives aid for motorcyclists that need wisdom from other riders, or even simply need the companionship of another rider.
  • 4. Blogs can be used for the good helping others with simple tasks such as which motorcycle to buy, how often one is going to drop their bike, and what to prepare for before a long trip. But there are also times that it goes to the next level such as when someone creates a new identity and uses it to get close to another person. Luckily, in the rec.Motorcycle group, our examples dont include that! However, there are some high emotions when people disagree on a certain way to do something. Likewise, this contributor suggests a history of real experience which he pits against that of another contributor whom he is attacking: Then there is something wrong with your gasoline, your bikes, or both, because in ten years of owning and servicing bikes (for myself and many others), Ive never seen gas go so bad in a month of sitting that a bike wont start at all
  • 5. With biker groups, trading stories and advice is common. My dad has always had a motorcycle, and always had a large group of friends that were fellow riders. Most of the time, theyd all get together and chat about life and everything else, but there were certainly times when someone was having an issue with their bike, and all the members would pitch in their ideas and thoughts. Of course, with this being in person, its much easier to know and guarantee that someone is being truthful about their knowledge. Online, however, its hard to decipher whether someone is copy and pasting or using something theyve heard through the grapevine instead of using their real-life experiences.
  • 6. So How Does This Affect Us? With so many people searching for truth and reality online, is this changing how people interact? I believe its absolutely changing things! If someone only talks to a person online, where there are no face-to-face interactions and different things like smileys and emoticons available, how would this same relationship survive in reality? Ive certainly had a great friendship with a person over the internet, and then once I met them in person and we attempted to hang out, it was so incredibly awkward and neither of us knew what to say or how to act! Luckily, this was a situation where we were alike enough that we got past it. But how often do people fall in love and create bonds online that can be so easily broken with such a thing as real life?
  • 7. This blog is a great example of an expositional text of rhetoric, because its used to argue and explain. These blogs are exactly that used to argue and explain ones point or view. Granted, this is again on the internet and may not necessarily follow all the guidelines of rhetoric. With the changing technology, rhetoric itself has changed drastically because it changes the simple way that people communicate. Maybe 10 years ago, not as many people had easy access of internet and computers it was still more of a luxury to have a computer and be able to readily have it available. There may have been blogs but they were things that were updated only occasionally, versus constant updates. Now-a-days, technology gives us the world at our fingertips literally! With smart phones and tablets, people can add to these blogs and view them by simply opening up an app or their mobile browser. Again, how has this changed the way that people communicate and build relationships? Its made things, in a way, easier. But at the same time, its made things more difficult because human interaction may feel different when face-to-face.
  • 8. Its clear that this blog site is used by many to base their usage and motorcycle life on. Its easier to get a large amount of advice and/or grasp a concept easier when there are hundreds up people giving their interpretations or thoughts. Id say this site has helped many people to share their stories but also helped many people with their decisions and issues with their own motorcycles.