Why would you say that?
Could Facebook be putting words in your mouth? One of the questions at the centre of this project is Do we need to change our attitudes to publishing online? The term ‘publishing’ tends to create thoughts of the gatekeepers of the printing press, with ability to transform you into the next JK Rowling. The reality is we all publish every single day, submitting an array of media from text and images to audio and video, in the form of tweets, posts and statuses. If you so much as post a comment on social media, you are publishing online. Arguably the most prominent social media platform is Facebook. With over two billion active monthly users , it has rapidly transformed over the past decade or so from a directory of your friends, to a source of news, entertainment and much more. Its success is founded upon the idea that everything is better with friends, as well as several definitive innovations, most famously the News Feed. Once upon a time, Facebook’s News Fe