is that Blogger is based on the assumption that if what you do or say is interesting, people will like you; and Facebook is based on the assumption that if people like you they will find what you do or say interesting.
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Reading Zadie Smith's piece on Facebook in the NYRB (on which I may have more to say later), I'm struck again by how much more brilliant Smith is as an essayist than as a novelist.
And I say this as someone who quite enjoys her novels.
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3 comments:
That essay is probably the best review I've read yet for that film.
(I don't have an FB account, but I fully understand that difference you talk about - great observation, btw.)
That was a superb piece indeed. All my niggling worries about FB have been laid out so very cohenrently.
Very True. I quit Facebook about a year ago and I am very happy.
I read Zadie Smith's article. Scathing.
:)
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