Blogging Facebook’s Removal of the Verb "Is”
Since Facebook removed the word is from their status updates I have been a little worried.
Flicking through my RSS feeds, it seems several publications I enjoy and respect have written about this “development” and in some cases the posts are embarrassingly long.
I recently wrote an article entitled 5 Ways to Avoid Blogger Blindness and I think that it may just be time for the blogosphere as a whole to read that particular article. It seems they may have become a little blind as to what’s worth writing about.
And then, of course, when everyone’s refreshed and ready to get back to writing, they might find the News Values for Bloggers articles here useful.
Come on guys, is the presence of a two-letter verb on a website really that important? Is its removal really making so much of a difference in your lives that you have to write long posts about it?
If the answer to that is yes then this is not the blog for you to be reading. This is.
Some bloggers got particularly excited about the fact that Twitter was rendered obsolete by this move, which really made me laugh. For starters, Twitter was never such a crucial service to anyone for any purpose that it could be rendered obsolete. And secondly, you have to be logged in to Facebook to see your friend’s status message. Sounds like too much hassle to find out some pathetically unproductive and useless piece of information about your friend’s nosepicking adventures.
I looked really hard to find something profound in my Facebook friend’s status messages, yet I’m still here quite uninspired on that deep philosophical level.
I realize that this post has ranted on quite long enough about people who rant about insignificant things. It’s a countermeasure, you know. You’ve got to counter every opinion with its opposite in equal force and length.
And with that bullshit theory of blogging, good night.
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