Facebook and Networking Upstages Blog

Blog clog is the dynamic in cyber social circles that occupies so much of the available creative space like "Brink Think Link" that fewer postings happen. Updates and postings to Facebook and other sites are superseding public comment like this. The immediacy and addiction of open public opinion has us spellbound and time compromised. Facebook is linked to mobile publishing and n'ary a thought gets formed but we all see it for comment or judgement or dismissal or deletion. The power of the blog-hit has been overwhelmed by the poke and Blog Publishing is even link-attached to Facebook entry for thumbs up but not down peer review. Facebook thinks that you either approve or support or "like" a communication but dislike means delete or a comment explaining why the dislike. There is a bias for the positive. Naysayers must explain their disdain; the yaytrain gets a neat little thumb icon that serves to numb communication about what is disliked or why. I have been sucked into the whirlpool of immediate gratification and now recognize how a presidential campaign gained such parochial feel from internet savvy that a junior legislator with community organizing credentials was able to ipad the election. The pencil is a noble instrument but way too slow. The writer's callous has been replaced by carpal thumb. Even now, I am plotting to post this on my Facebook Profile so it can be seen by more readers. Shamelessly, I hope the Blog Clog is snaked out by a Drano-like reaction that says No with as much aplomb as the Yayhoos who need not explain what they like but like Jack Horner, they hide in a corner and pull out a plum. Thumbs Up Nay Sayers: "No" is responsible and accountable. Persist in explaining yourselves and avoid the error of using the wrong finger.