Soon, we will look back on this all and laugh: a nerd without friends takes an idea from his high school days at Phillips Exeter, where Facebook has been in existence for decades, and tries to use it to get a life. Others join because they don’t see that the app steals what it promises to deliver: a life - a real, authentic life and identity. The whole imbroglio points out the hollow core of modern culture, where people have been reduced to confused consumers who give up whatever shreds of privacy they might have left in order to be told what to buy. Things will go poof, slowly at first as users begin to realize they need to get a life, then all at once when stockholders realize that there is no more money to be made off these poor souls who have begun a legitimate search for their own souls and decoupled from Facebook.
Comment from this NYT article
I’m not saying she’s right, but isn’t she kind of right?
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