I applaud your reflection on social media and online expression. In agreement and reply, I say:

Doesn’t anybody just e-mail anymore? I use my e-mail inbox in a specific way, where the processed items are filed in sub-folders or deleted (you know, like a real “inbox!”), and the unfinished business remains, a visual reminder of what’s left to be done. Facebook’s messages are not so flexibly managed, and they’re all anybody uses anymore, and it’s screwing up my workflow. Boo.

Also, I see my own blog postings dwindling in number (and in size), and I blame the Twitter/FB Status messages’ necessarily brief formats for streamlining my tendency to ramble on. A hit-and-run note is fine, but I have to wonder if I’ve allowed myself to be conditioned into short form thought patterns. Blog postings used to be my favorite place to work things out, meditate, and talk smack. No longer.

Daddy no like.