I have written a comment on Lica's own comment on Puente's comment, and posted it on Lica's blog. I am reproducing my comment here below, just to give additional access to it, access under my control, which some readers might more easily gain:
"Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya.
I do appreciated your contribution to the on-going conversation regarding the quality of writing on Facebook and Twitter. I did mention in my own blog-post yesterday that Maria Puente's piece is a valuable piece of advice to all who would like to add value to their Facebook or Twitter contributions. Content is the real "King of Kongo", but it has to be one's own and it has to seek elevation beyond the mundane. ReTweets are other people's content, which we pass along. Pepy's diary entry on a bad ("down") day should not be today's standard "update" -- particularly when we are "up" and/or "about".
Still, the average social-networker (or social capitalist) does need a measure of orientation -- indeed, in view of all the water that has flowed under the bridge, re-orientation -- but is currently left, in this particular jungle, to his/her own Twittering devices. That is not the way the Great Conversation that's social networking is going to truly benefit from the angularity of our individual "takes" on the wonderful diversity that's the human condition.
I did also quote the Debby Weil "pearl" in my blog post yesterday, but her own contributions which you cite certainly do not measure up to her own stated standards or ideals, or to those that Maria Puente was clearly rooting for. We do need standards of quality, to shovel a large section of today's "diarists" out of the rut of mediocre articulation/cnversation.
Incidentally, let me say this and then I'm out of here, the Kobayashi Issa haiku that you quote does not -- certainly not in the English translation that I see -- meet the 5-7-5 standard which many of us are attempting to preserve today in Twitter. What do you say?"
