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04-22-2014, 10:41 PM
B.J. **vak: Social Media Is Making Us Better Writers
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"[Social media] makes everyone aware of the minutia of conversation in literary form," **vak told Mashable. “A status update contains so much fear and hope and worry and fakery and inadvertent honesty and style and attempts to **t try too hard."
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"[Social media] makes everyone aware of the minutia of conversation in literary form," **vak told Mashable. “A status update contains so much fear and hope and worry and fakery and inadvertent honesty and style and attempts to **t try too hard."
See also: The ******'s B.J. **vak Launches First Book on Instagram (http://mashable.com/2014/01/31/bj-**vak-instagram/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/bj-**vak-social-media-literature/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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