The Web Isn't Killing Old-Timey Media, They're Committing Suicide

Though some of my recent customer service posts might lead you to think otherwise, dear reader, I do not intend to become a web curmudgeon. There's way too many of those already!

That said, I found this TIME magazine article about Facebook incredibly weak and silly:

Facebook's Doppelgänger Week Is Viral Groupthink

I was going to comment on the site but TIME requires some kind of log-in and I'm pretty tired of registering for sites I don't normally visit just to comment. I started to use one of the options that now allow one to log-in via one's Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, etc. accounts but they all involve information sharing between systems and I'm just not comfortable with that, in part, because I don't really know how much sharing goes on.

That said, the commenters are tearing the writer to shreds and I doubt I'd have anything interesting to add.

So, if you want to watch a bunch of smart people show a TIME columnist just how clueless he is, enjoy!

If not, I applaud you for taking the higher ground!

PS - I greatly enjoyed Doppelganger Week. I already had one picked out that I'd used elsewhere and it was fun to see all the different choices people made when picking out a celebrity. Mine was a cartoon character named Jin, which didn't exactly follow the presumed guidelines, but nobody seemed to mind.

We were all having a wee bit of fun with our friends without hurting anybody at all. And what's so bad about that?