> We risk facing a cultural shift where it becomes hip to "drop out" of a social online society. And? While this might scare the sizable portion of HN readers

> We risk facing a cultural shift where it becomes hip to "drop out" of a social online society. And? While this might scare the sizable portion of HN readers who have money staked on social, I would see this as a net positive. EDIT: No but really, besides the Arab Spring social media has spammed the world with cute cat pictures and eaten away at the blogosphere. The portions eaten away are subsumed into one of the competing walled gardens. The web wasn't designed to be an echo chamber.