How Facebook has changed the way we read... everything

I have a lot of thoughts on my agenda to get out the door. On the off chance that someone will read them and say "hmm, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense!"

So let's start with item one: how the facebook age has changed the way we read, and write, print media.
My writing director has been saying that over the last 5 to 10 years she has seen many writers picking up on emotions in writings that simply aren't there, interpreting personal attacks that are actually part of standard rhetoric. Keep in mind that this is in the context of biological ethics essays, that is, very academic writings about very abstract concepts.
Now, whether or not the "insult" was intended or not by the writer is up to interpretation. My director's interpretation is that this is standard proceedings, seen in legal discourse and therefore not emotionally biased.

What she doesn't realize is that the readers today grew up on facebook. We have our social, very emotionally laden discourses through (what amounts to) print media. We must convey our complex intents, sarcasm, subtle insults, etc, through the words that we write, without the convenience of voice inflection, facial expressions, body language, all of the tools we would use in social discourse. In most print media we don't even have the convenience of italics, nor the fictional literary tools of "he said with loathing." Ergo, we have learned not only to write, but to read emotions in written words that perhaps were not detected before because writers of latter day only wrote for academic purposes and used the phone or face to face conversations for their social, more emotional discourses. Ergo we have learned to read and write emotionally, and that doesn't go away when we are presented with printed text from another source. Its almost as if we've invented a new written language, using the same words but with much more (or at least different) meaning than how it was used before.

I predict that all print media will evolve as the facebook generation comes of age. Academic writings will have to be much more directly objective, and will leave behind the discourse that was once legalese but has since been socialized to have strong emotional meaning. I welcome the evolution, to strip academic discourse of its ambiguity while also enriching our written language with a myriad of subtle meanings. It really opens up fiction writing and other genres in a way that was probably inaccessible before, or at least would have gone over most readers' heads. But now, we can detect the most subtle, and apparently sometimes nonexistent, underlying meanings, and previously "dry" authors will have an audience. This is going to be fun.