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Originally Posted by crich70
I'm sure there were those who felt that writing itself was doomed when the printing press came about. In the middle ages when few could read churches would have pictures painted on the walls to illustrate parts of the Bible. It didn't make more people illiterate. It just helped those who couldn't read to get a sense of their world. People write fewer letters on paper now (to the post office's regret) but people do still write letters. They are sent via email instead. Technology changes over time but the need for communication means that writing isn't dying any time soon.
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Not sure what you are trying to say with this.
Has anyone implied that writing words in a computer program rather than on paper (or hand-illuminated vellum) is killing the written word?
The OP referred to "Facebook makes a claim that text is disappearing".
NOT:
"Facebook makes a claim that
printed text is disappearing".
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Pictures on the walls of churches is a very good example of "people were illiterate". Granted, it was the effect rather than the cause, but AFAIK you are the only one who suggested that anyone might think it was the other way around.
More pictures don't hurt (and didn't hurt the churches, I suppose). Pictures
replacing words does hurt. Especially when that change is in the primary method of communication these days.
Not that I see any such change happening, outside limited and foregone spheres of influence.