June 24, 2014

Facebook Adé
The average Facebook profile, with its many status updates, commented photo albums, notes, and posts, contains approximately 65,000 words of text. While photos quicken the game, a Facebook user is primarily a reader of text. Sixty-five thousand words is the length of a short novel; “profile” suggests already something character-driven; “status” may track the throes of heroes and antiheroes, “in a relationship”—a romance.