A Life in Pieces, or Why I Now Think in Facebook.

I blame Twitter.

No one felt the need to be concisely witty before Twitter.  Oh sure, we were short and sweet in our Facebook statuses (statusi?) but we tended to simply state our purposes, saying "going to the store, need tomato sauce for mom's lasagna," or "seeing a movie tonight, so excited!"  But suddenly, with the birth of Twitter, we all feel the importance of our declarative statements.  They need to be catchy, intelligent, cheeky, thought provoking, and hilarious all at once.

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