http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/moms-on-facebook/1253700/ SNL hits it out of the park on this one. That said, I love my Mom and don’t mind she’s my Facebook friend. Making peace with the prospect of disappointing our parents but knowing you can still love each other is just one of those things you have to do to become a real grown-up.

I decided to quit^* Twitter a few weeks ago, but it’s been a long time coming. I’m quitting because I believe that Twitter is harmful for individuals, harmful to the individual’s relationship to society, and is run in a malignant fashion.

Go home Aggregator and trending algorithm, you’re drunk.

Posted to Facebook as Farewell

As I prepare to log out one final time, I’d like to tell you about how I wish social media would have gone. It didn’t go this way. Greed and control and perverse incentives got in the way. I’ll tell you how it was in the late 90’s &emdash; how it was small, quaint, and good &emdash; and how it turned into the blighted, “alternative facts” hellscape of today.

The Bulletin-Board System (BBS) Influence

This week, further research by The Guardian, Time, and the Wall Street Journal documented what we already knew. The Zuckerberg empire is ruining lives. For real.