The Strain of Gaiety

First read Meghan Daum’s op-ed piece on Twitter from the LA Times.
Then read this email I sent her.

Meghan,
Meghan, oh Meghan. I am disappointed. You’ve contributed another eye-rolling, get-a-load-of-this-crazy-thing editorial on Twitter that completely misses the point. But first, what you get right:
Yes, there is a lot of inanity on Twitter. Certainly. Before going [...]

Why didn’t I see it? It was so obvious. Facebook’s new redesign wasn’t some blunder on Facebook’s part. It wasn’t some clumsy misstep. It was the watershed moment, the jump-the-shark moment, where Facebook declared its serious intention to service Facebook’s advertisers and business partners over its users.
Any Facebook user surely has noticed the sudden crush [...]