I believe that the significance of literature in the Facebook generation is that it may be used as a tool to convey meaningful thoughts and sentiments that can inspire anyone and everyone. Use it wisely, carefully, and respectfully so that even if the world keeps changing, we can still see artworks that influence everyone, even if it's not in the old style, but in a modernized one where we can continue to live with well-written books.

Some may disagree with this viewpoint, but based from my experience in social media, these kind of social media posts happen on a day-to-day basis throughout the internet. While sometimes literature authors post an excerpt from their works, it is much more different from what the social media author’s intention. With that in mind, literature works is a great form of art use to express oneself. One factor of this is how the authors build-up their story, making the readers restless on what will happen next on the story. It directs the reader’s attentions towards the book; some even make up theories based upon from what they have read. Theories made by the readers about the characters, the story, and sometimes even the author’s intention from the book. In addition, literary works contain deeper words. Words that contain a deeper meaning than what the readers thought it to be. Some of them are already deep to begin with, but with the author’s ability to manipulate the meaning of it to mean another thing is truly astonishing in itself. Readers often catch the author’s “hidden message” within them, which makes literature even more intriguing. 

While the latter, social media posts.  Also intends to convey their emotions and thinking. However, unlike literature authors, it’s shallow. Meaning the way they express their emotion is too simple. Although it also expresses the intention of the author to the readers, it doesn’t equate the literature ones. In line with this, social media posts are “too obvious”; readers can easily anticipate the author’s intention for their posts. With its simple format, may it be long or short, with experienced readers, one is able to quickly understand the author’s intention. What makes it predictable is the way social media authors writes them, from the words used to the structure of the sentences, one is able to foresee the ending or the author’s intention. With the way people construct stories nowadays, some use “Slang” words or words that the 21^st century often use. These words are often associated with the “gen z” people, although these words are constructed from either shortening or combining two words. They don’t have the same impact as the ones used in literature and they are also grammatically wrong. Rather than teaching the readers to understand the true essence of the word, they are learning grammatically incorrect words that shouldn’t be used in the form of artworks. 

With these two in mind, one can say the importance of reading literature in today’s time. When a reader properly reads and understands a literature authors’ intentions, this can lead to the reader being curious. The reader’s curiosity can spark the start of them being an avid literature reader, continually reading and learning different authors’ intention, the author’s viewpoint on certain problems, or to feel the true emotions of the author for writing the literature. It can also lead the way for the reader to become an author, fully expressing their emotion through literature art works. Furthermore, literature also teaches the readers of today’s time the words that were frequently used from the past. Words that captivate the readers’ eyes and curiosity, words that contain a deeper meaning from what the eyes meet. From these viewpoints one can conclude that reading literature in the Facebook generation is an essential knowledge for the present and future generation to come.