Only brought up Twitter because of original article. If you ask me, that entire industry--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc--is a sewer, and always has been a s

Only brought up Twitter because of original article. If you ask me, that entire industry--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc--is a sewer, and always has been a sewer. Whether it's social media, online games, or something entirely new, when there is a) real-time feedback, b) a profit motive, and c) a large enough user base to conduct experiments on, it is only a matter of time before someone gets the bright idea of hiring a few data scientists to optimize the rube-fleecing. Then it becomes Pavlov's human. The whole awful business is the crack-pipe of our upper-middle class, and the guys who made those crack pipes knew exactly what they were doing. If a bunch of alt-right shitposters shoved Wil Wheaton off of the pipe, they unintentionally did him a favor. And as far as original analogy went, sewers were designed for sewage. Rivers weren't. It is not that complicated.