Interesting thing to quote, given that JWZ hisself now says:
> If all the people who claimed to have been "inspired" by this piece hadn't been, and had just kept writing middleware for banks or whatever, the world might have been a slightly better place.
It seems that what he actually objects to are the now-ubiquitous surveillance, centralization, and black-box algorithm curation aspects of social networks – not the actually social parts.
> If all the people who claimed to have been "inspired" by this piece hadn't been, and had just kept writing middleware for banks or whatever, the world might have been a slightly better place.
> I wish I had never published this.