The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook
Stitching together these simple declarative statements into an autobiographical timeline creates a pale simulacrum of personal story-telling, no matter how much Facebook presents it as a way to “tell your story.”
This is what happens when language is optimized for social data-mining rather than natural communication.
Ideally it’d be the other way around - we’d be optimizing social data-mining to conform to natural communication, right? This is the kind of stuff I would love to do a PhD on someday…
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