I now get why I don't like Twitter. It's impossible to have a conversation or debate on it. This post was a direct result of that impossibility. Slightly OT, b

I now get why I don't like Twitter. It's impossible to have a conversation or debate on it. This post was a direct result of that impossibility. Slightly OT, but the New Yorker recently profiled Jarod Lanier[1] where he critiques social networking sites as dehumanizing and designed to encourage shallow-interactions. There are also a lot more interesting viewpoints including calling Wikipedia a triumph of "intellectual mob rule". I would highly recommend the article as a "Devil's advocate" sorta reading, which is unfortunately behind a paywall[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier [2] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_kahn?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_...