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"Offending one's delicate sensibilities" is a stock phrase. It's generally used in a tongue-in-cheek/mocking manner, referring to someone who is being overly dr
by QuercusMax 8y ago
"Offending one's delicate sensibilities" is a stock phrase. It's generally used in a tongue-in-cheek/mocking manner, referring to someone who is being overly dramatic; often used together with phrases like "clutching one's pearls".
I think they're mocking both Facebook and Systrom at the same time.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoTo what end? They think people care too much about UI design?
- mturmon 8y agoIt sounds like the Verge writer is trying to demonstrate that he has a perspective wider than any of the principals like Systrom and the FB management team, and is thereby entitled to judge them. (Systrom is effete, and the FB team is ruthless.) It does wear thin.
- wavefunction 8y agoThat Systrom checked out but was also checked-in enough to throw a fit over the direction facebook decided to go in his absence/checked-outness.