To(o) Many Words. Really

 A couple of weeks ago I posted my final original writing post to my Tumblr account. Not by design, or with any forethought, but it became my last notwithstanding.

It all happened because of "To Many Words." Three grammatically incorrect words meant to critique a post I had written about the abuse of the acronym LOL.

The post topped out at 333 words, including the 5-word title -- not terribly long in the old-school world of publishing from whence I have come. So I asked a Tumblr friend of fine, "What gives?"

"Tumblr as a whole is supposed to be more visual," she says. Oh, now she tells me.

To be serious, that kind of confirmed what I had been sensing about Tumblr for some while. I've been pouring my editorial heart out on Tumblr and no one is reading. Great! Well, at least there's a reason. So I switched it up and made Tumblr a photo posting spot.

So, hopefully the "to many words criticism was just from someone trying to clue me on the fact that Tumblr readers aren't really feeling the "longwinded" posts.

What I dread about "to many words," however, is if this is indicative of some greater loathing toward reading by a society more accustomed to 144-character Tweets and staccato, fragment-sentence Facebook status updates.

Really no way to be sure. And if even if that is happening, who's to say whether it's a good or bad shift.

But maybe, just maybe, if people did read more, they would know the difference between "to" and "too" and even "two.

Just my (too) cents.