Facebook is the pop song we all get to write. In the 60s everyone commented on how short pop songs were, that composers were allowed no more than four minutes. Now we are down to just a few characters, as the readers of tweetature know. The key change is that we all get to participate.
The democraticization of publishing your thoughts comes at the price of brevity. Everyone can put their inner monologue out for there but we don't get to go on and on like James Joyce. Instead we send out short bulletins from our lives. When we aren't borrowing from a pop song or Oscar Wilde, we are writing brief memos about ourselves.
Sometimes, when we are lucky, what's on our mind" sounds a line from a cool song, but we don't usually get to write hits. More writers doesn't mean more great one-liners, but at least we are having fun. Pop culture has become the archive and dictionary for our running self-commentaries.
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