“People who don’t know each other very well are trying to develop fast and facile friendships. It’s really, really ironic that software for automating social processes is making interactions worse.”
Blogger and novelist Cory Doctorow, unknowingly observing that social networking startups have perfectly realized the aims of American society, Wired News, 28 January 2004
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