Nothing has changed. The people who want to tell stories, tell them.

But for all the complaints about short-form internet media like texts and tumblr, twitter and facebook status updates, at least people are writing. That's a lot more than can be said for the time before all of these things existed. Before social media, texting, and blogging, you could go weeks or months without writing a damn thing other than what you had to write for school or work (which often amounted to nothing at all).

Now we have a way for everyone to discover for themselves whether or not they are interested in longer-form storytelling. You can't tell me we don't have many more storytellers telling many more stories today than we did in the time before writing became something that suddenly everyone regardless of social status did for themselves every single day.