This is intersting for all the historical context thing that is refreshing, and so boring because he takes the facebook and other social networks messages so mu

This is intersting for all the historical context thing that is refreshing, and so boring because he takes the facebook and other social networks messages so much at face value in it's message. I don't think anyone needed to read 10 pages to understand that when facebook told you "you are now friend with xxx" it doesn't mean anything much as "this person is now on your feed and can be seen as so", and the real work you did to become friend happens parallely to that. And keeping friendship also has no direct relations to the medium you use (before facebook you sent post cards to your friends, not 10 page missives, and it wasn't much bounding in itself). It's well writtten but lacks insight in what people really see in a social site.