Is everyone an author

To answer the question "is everyone an author," you have to take into account what an author is. An author by definition is someone who has written a book, article, or report. So, by definition, no. Not everyone is an author. However, everyone does write. Whether its a report for school or a post on Facebook, even notes that they've jotted down, everyone has written. These don't take the typical forms of writing that we would expect from authors so we don't consider the writer of these things to be an author. If you were to say your definition of author is someone who has their work published, though, then everyone who's tweeted or posted on Facebook would be an author. Everything on the internet is published for the world to see. It's all quite public and therefore published electronically, even though you personally may not consider it to be published because it is not in a printed medium such as a newspaper or book or magazine. I personally think that an author is someone who is serious about their writing. I don't consider someone an author because they electronically published something on Facebook. I would consider a blogger an author because they are probably more serious about the things that they are writing about. A blogger is most likely blogging about their passion and is therefore taking what they write rather seriously.