{"id":2480,"date":"2011-11-10T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:38:17","slug":"facebook-wall-photos-neanderthal%e2%80%99s-hieroglyphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Facebook wall photos = Neanderthal\u2019s hieroglyphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/keyboard1-main_Full1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2482\" title=\"keyboard1-main_Full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/keyboard1-main_Full1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/keyboard1-main_Full1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/keyboard1-main_Full1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook wall photos are our modern-day hieroglyphics. We tweeted this observation the other day and nobody was interested enough to respond. Our hypothesis is that, with the growing array of social media tools available for our daily communications, people have lost the interest to write and to read. There\u2019s no time for words when a graphic will do. No time for your fingers to hang over the key board and compose your thoughts when you can simply post a wall photo. The truth of the matter is that most would rather surf through a collection of wall photos than compose a paragraph of thoughtful prose. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have become a society of \u201cthe quick glance\u201d with a carnivorous appetite for simple graphics, one-line slogans and photos to explain our daily thoughts and happenings. <em>Facebook wall posters rule! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We want it all related in\u00a0graphic images,\u00a0produced to fit\u00a0our\u00a0screen <em>(no scrolling please!)<\/em> \u2013 very much like the Neanderthals, who gazed\u00a0at\u00a0stick figures on cave walls to comprehend their life stories.<\/p>\n<p>Agree? Disagree? Let us know by leaving your comments on this blog &#8211; or join the\u00a0discussion\u00a0on our Facebook page. You may wish to tweet us your thoughts&#8230; or, if you\u2019d rather, go ahead and find an appropriate\u00a0wall poster to explain what you think. (We promise to glance at it.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/keyboard1-main_Full.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Facebook wall photos are our modern-day hieroglyphics. We tweeted this observation the other day and nobody was interested enough to respond. Our hypothesis is that, with the growing array of social media tools available for our daily communications, people have lost the interest to write and to read. There\u2019s no time for words when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}