Oh well, or Goodbye to all that

 Zadie Smith has a fine article in the new New York Review of Books about "The Social Network," Mark Zuckerberg, Generation 2.0. and all.  (She admits to being Gen 1.0, and says she texts in full sentences, with punctuation.  I am so 1.0 I can't even text; I forget how many times you have to press the little numbers to get the right letter, and I didn't even know that punctuation exists.)  She goes to a screening, and observes the mostly Zuckerberg-aged or younger crowd enjoy the whole thing immensely if a bit ironically. She notes:  "At my screening when a character in the film mentioned the early blog platform LiveJournal (still popular in Russia) the audience laughed... I can just about imagine a time when Facebook will seem as comically obsolete as LiveJournal."  

So I will just go wait back here till Mark Zuckerberg arrives from the obsolete present, laughed at by Gen 3.0, if they laugh.
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Published on November 14, 2010 12:08
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