Color me duh.......I saw it referred to as a tweet.
Being totally unfamiliar with facebook or tweet, I have no clue.
LOL......sorry.
No problem! A big difference is that tweets are limited to 140 characters. They thus lend themselves to breezy and abbreviated comments, and indeed while she was still guv Palin used them that way. That unfortunately played into the completely unfair, shallow-airhead caricature that the Left/media had painted of her, and William Shatner lampooned them by reading them as poetry on Letterman, I think it was.
But she’s actually taking Facebook to new heights, if you will, posting longer and better researched thought pieces (extensive footnotes and all!) than would be permitted in the usual newspaper op-ed format. She was masterful by first posting one with the evocative ‘death panel’ term, and once everyone from Obama on down had felt compelled to respond she followed up with a more detailed piece that took his healthcare advisor Zeke Emanuel to task as well.
It really was masterful, and your point is entirely on point!