"Web Site for Teenagers With Literary Leanings"
The Website "Figment" was created by a staff writer for The New Yorker who envisioned it to be a literary Facebook for teenagers.
The creators thought it would be a social network for young adult fiction, but early on they learned that people didn't want a new Facebook.
"The young people on the site weren’t much interested in “friending” one another. What they did want, he said, “was to read and write and discover new content, but around the content itself,” The New York Times reported.
The website will be unveiled as an experiment in online literature. People can read and write fiction on both their computers and cell phones. The idea merged from a 21st century idea: The Cellphone Novel.
I feel as though this article followed the inverted pyramid format perfectly. Although I read the article to the end, the information grew less pertinent and engaging as it went on.
I did visit Figment.com and thought it was pretty cool.
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