Friday, November 12, 2010

The difference between Blogger and Facebook

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.

3 comments:

km said...

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.)

DewdropDream said...

That was a superb piece indeed. All my niggling worries about FB have been laid out so very cohenrently.

Jasmine said...

Very True. I quit Facebook about a year ago and I am very happy.
I read Zadie Smith's article. Scathing.
:)