Is Social Media a Failed Experiment?

If the experiment was making money, it did just fine. If it was influencing people’s behaviour it did just fine. If, however, it was supposed to have some positive impact on its users or the world, unfortunately, that got buried long ago.

Usenet, maybe, was positive but Gresham’s law always wins.

‘Eternal September’ is a problem.

Every so often I find some place that represents a new low in IQ. Fetlife, for instance has a lot of people on it who have little more to say for themselves but ‘I have a dick.’