Status Updates
So it turns out I’m absolutely atrociously bad at writing Facebook status updates. My writing tends to be long-form, verbose, scientific… delving deeply into topics like dental materials. Fascinating to me, boOOoring to others.
I’ll come up with this idea for a status update. For example, on the forthcoming 100th anniversary of one of the greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century: “The fourth smokestack on the Titanic wasn’t for smoke. It was for ventilation and esthetics.” I think that’s such a cool piece of trivia, because there are pictures where you can clearly see someone looking out of what is ostensibly a smokestack. So yes, that’s the type of status update I’d be writing. Not… good. Few share the same curiosity about the way things work, and even fewer will want such trivia dropped into their “stream” of updates from their friends. I guess it makes things seem like work to them.
Anyhow, the typical status update would be more like this: “Guys, the Titanic was real! #mindblown”. I could keep practicing, but I don’t know if I want to get better at that type of thing.