In this previous post I linked to an article that upset me.
It tells a story about these incredibly smart kids that waste their time and energy (and considerable amounts of brain, apparently) to build yet another ‘social’ things; Internet services that basically allow the user to shut their minds, do fuck-all (apart from taking a picture maybe), and in return be “famous” (in the Facebook sense).
Is this really the way the Internet is developing? Towards a weapon of brain annihilation?
For another view on why social network may turn out to be the silliest of all Internet evolutionary branches, see also Tim Berners-Lee’s article on Scientific American.