Dear Brother, Parental Unit, Evila Elf, JES, and perhaps JP and Shrie? I have not abandoned my online journal. Prose is alas, still alive. I use it in my ink-on-paper journal almost daily. And in the occasional solo-audience email.
"Prose generally lacks the formal structure of
meter or
rhyme which is typical of poetry; instead it is composed of full sentences, usually divided into paragraphs, and then smaller segments known as meta-paragraphs."
I know Wikipedia is controversial but I'm a lazy Googler. Prose generally probably lacks the potential half sentence/thoughts of a facebook status or twitter tweet as well. That is a sentence I would not have written a mere 6-ish months ago.
No offense to poetry, of course!