Know Your Audience Analysis Blog

Last week we posted questions on our Know Your Audience discussion board.  I posed the question if you could be reincarnated what would you be and why.  When I made the question I had just answered a dozen questions from other class mates.  I was going off of the silly and interesting natural of the questions when I came up with mine.  In the same respect that I was answering everyone else’s questions in a fun tone while revealing a little about myself I was hoping for the same in return to my question.   What surprised me was getting a handful of responses that refused to answer the question and just said I don’t believe in reincarnation and why they didn’t believe.  This perturbed me slightly that it was being taken so seriously.  Then I remembered the point of the discussion was to know your audience.  At times I forget where I live and go to school.  Sometimes questions that even tread on the border of religious views are hard for people to take lightly.  I can respect their choices to take my question seriously, and I appreciate that they answered at all.  It does remind me that I have to remember all the people in my class who may read my essays or posts.  My intension by asking a question about reincarnation was not meaning to be offensive or question any religious views.  I only wanted to see what people would want to be if they could be anything else.  I still got some great answers from other classmates.  Some wanted to be lazy animals, or animals that lived alone.  My favorite was someone wanted to be Einstein’s brain.  This is an answer I was looking for when I came up with my question.  I wanted people to look outside just being a human or another human but to be something else.   Why not want to be the Queen of England’s waving hand or just a fly on the wall?  I guess I like questions that make you think outside of who you really are.