Is Everyone An Author?

In this day and age, everyone is much more than they seem. Throw out the stereotypical starving artist perception of an author (you know, the mid twenty year old, rugged guy or gal who lives in a tiny studio apartment and spends their days aimlessly walking the streets of New York searching for inspiration to rekindle their creative fire) and you're left with a pretty remarkable idea. Everyone is an author. With access to internet, it's easier than ever to communicate through writing. At it's very core, writing is a method of communicating knowledge. We make Facebook posts, publish blogs, ask questions on Yahoo Answers. Even these little things contribute to the worlds accumulated knowledge. At the moment, our world is learning things like never before. Every day there are new studies, discoveries, and stories to be shared. Without any communication we would not be able to take these leaps in knowledge, let alone share them globally. Movie scripts, oral stories, posters, murals, advertisements- we need writing for much more than we consider when we merely look at the surface. Writing is so much more than simply publishing novels, and the title of 'author' can no longer be reserved for only those individuals that do.