tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22894657.post7276758585478523607..comments2023-09-02T10:57:55.257-04:00Comments on fishouttawater: Do Facebook "status updates" count as "reading"?Fishouttawaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13779881400631650271noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22894657.post-8534644436814763642008-08-25T10:04:00.000-04:002008-08-25T10:04:00.000-04:00It was within the last 6ix months, I think, that F...It was within the last 6ix months, I think, that Facebook changed the status update interface so that you could, if you wanted to, actually delete the "is" and insert whatever verb you wished into the S-V-O construction of Fb updates. People who want to break boxes that keep them outside the gates of paradise, often do. People who stick with the "is", they on some other kind a trip, yo! Imagine confessional poetry trying to make a stand in the age of twitteresque narratives. Polishing language for a pretty take on "this-is-what-is-happening-to-me-now" is devalues because the market is glutted. In the future, people will pay for privacy and intimacy because escape from the environmental conditions that are opposites to these states will define a kind of luxury.marklaskowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404418078700886817noreply@blogger.com