Maria Puente's Art of Writing on Facebook or Twitter

Maria Puente bemoans the all-too-common habit of writing on Facebook and Twitter as though art, the art of writing, does not matter in those fora. She complains, "the modern status update is not always compelling reading." I cannot but agree with her entirely. In a recent twitter update I remarked that "content is the real King of Kongo." She puts it much more elegantly. Clearly, "Feeding the cat" or "Watching TV" is no one's king -- though, Puente concedes:

"To be fair, even great diarists of the past had bad days: Samuel Pepys, the Englishman whose journals clarified a big chunk of the 17th century for historians, sometimes had nothing more imaginative to say than: And so to bed."

Yet she wants something more: "Surely we could do better 350 years later?", she remarks.

Approvingly, she quotes Debbie Weil, author of The Corporate Blogging Book, who notes:

"Great blogging is great writing, and it turns out great Twittering is great writing — it's the haiku form of blogging."

And she, Puente, insists: "Funny, clever and sassy updates and tweets stand out because they are the exception. Boring, vapid or just TMI — too much information — updates often dominate in cyberspace."
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Further Reading:
1. Click on link to read: Ten Ways to Put Your Content in Front of More People.