No, they do need to be done. After years of self-description as, what was it, some term, but in practice "the new new thing," a social network, and comparing i

No, they do need to be done. After years of self-description as, what was it, some term, but in practice "the new new thing," a social network, and comparing itself to a door...or a chair? Which one was the satire? Well after all that self-presentation as a mysterious fundamental, ineffable thing, Mark Zuckerberg recently claimed it was "between a newspaper and a telecom." So, as something somewhere between a newspaper and a telecom. I suppose it could have been carried out in the late 80s through the telephone system if people left messages by calling 1-800-FACE-BOOK, and maybe touch-tone dialed text for the title, and then to check what your friends wrote you called 1-800-FACE-BOOK again, and after combining your friends' submissions it would call you back. It would let you select which you wanted to play by operating on the digital titles, again by dialing, and when you found one you wanted to hear it would play you the recording your friend wrote. And not only would it be less viable, in the 80s it would cost money to use, and have no advertising. Just not viable. These days, it's viable, and there has just been too much in capitalist subsidies to return to a time before images. There was a time when condensing the sight before your eyes into two dimensions meant buying rolls of photos, taking a dedicated device that could imprint on them the light of reality, giving it time to use the material well until there was enough to justify a trip to get it developed--first dropping it off, writing down in a paper agenda to return in a few days, then returning and paying--and only then would you witness what the camera witnessed. And then cataloging the photographs in an album, and keeping that album on a shelf with all the other books--there were all sorts of different books for all sorts of things--and finally, years in the future, reviewing the photographs to relive the past. But so much has been spent into making this process trivial. I would estimate trillions in R&D and subsidizing the semiconductors that made all the machinery that came before it a thing of the past. Not to mention bandwidth, without which sharing images on the web was still possible over the course of hours. On the other hand, you're doing the right thing, right now, in choosing a social network that doesn't use images in almost any sense, has two moderators, and is broadcast-based nonetheless. Your post was just broadcast, brimble.