How’s This for a Narrative Device?

No sooner had blogger “Nien” written these words:

… social media is all about the person and telling the their story. I think it’d be a trip either adapt a novel that’s told through Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Flicker, blogs and whatever or write an entirely new novel using the same devices…

… than the above appeared on the Chicago Tribune’s headcandy, A Modern Day Romance (using Facebook’s News Feed feature as a narrative device).

Of course, about 5 billion commenters jumped on the headcandy poster to point out that the Facebook News Feed is in reverse chrono order — with the most recent items appearing first, but it was a cool idea.