The thin gruel of social media or how I learned to love long sentences.

I have read a few posts this month on LinkedIn post styles

A few good posts on sentence structure got me thinking if Social Media was changing the way we communicate and ultimately changing how we think. A popular style of communication today is the short rapid staccato of social media 

I did this 

I went here 

look at this 

look at me 

With this style, we are reduced to the fact of mere reportage, only ever recording the "what" and never even thinking of the "how" or more importantly the "why". Our words only every recording the very surface layer of context and meaning with no layers or depth to our sentence structure, we are just stating fact like a camera with nothing implied. 

For example 

There is a boy

his clothes are dusty and torn

he has a parcel 

the parcel is wrapped in newspaper 

the parcel is heavy 

he has to walk 1.5 miles to deliver the parcel 

the gift in the parcel is important to the boy 

the gift is for a girl 

or 

The boy held the parcel tight to his heaving chest, the sweat pooling on his brow from his exertion in the mid-day sun worked its way down his face to his dusty torn t-shirt. He had wrapped the parcel that morning on his mother's kitchen table and although all he had to hand was last weeks newspaper he thought he had done a swell job of it. The dust from the lane kicked up under his scuffed shoes as he put one shaky leg in front of another, not far now he thought, he must have covered at least a mile from the farm gate he had clambered over and soon she would be opening the parcel and all his hard work and effort would be worthwhile. His anticipation of her smile at first reserved and coy slowly illuminating her face spreading like the warmth of the morning sun from her sweet lips up to her gentle loving eyes gave him renewed strength and drove him on.

Although more is written in the second version, much more can be implied as not written. We are told less is more but sometimes more is more. 

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