I make a lot of brief comments on news stories I find online on my Facebook page, as opposed to doing so with Blogger because Facebook is quicker, easier, and more widely read than my blog.
The only problem I have is that blog writing is already substantially shorter and less formal than the traditional article writing I used to do ten years ago, and now with Facebook, I'm abbreviating it even more.
In short (no pun intended), I'm not really getting much writing done at all. I'm falling in to the same trap as so many these days who share their thoughts in shorter and shorter bursts - you can see how Twitter has made this epidemic with nothing but bad acronyms and a new sort of digital photography that makes the grammar junkie in me just cringe.
I think those of us who still care about the English language, intelligent conversation, and the value of reading need to be careful about how far we go to embrace the shortening of the American attention span, and take the time to stop, think, and write something worth reading when we find something worth saying.
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