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May 18, 2011 01:55 pm PDT
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NYT editor Bill Keller on "The Twitter Trap" (TL;DR: "Get Off My Lawn")
Ah, we should have known it was opinion piece fodder. Last week New York Times editor Bill Keller, who has tweeted all of 20 tweets since joining Twitter in 2009, wrote, "Twitter makes you stupid. Discuss." Today, a piece by Keller for the New York Times Magazine which says roughly that, only with 1100 more words. Starts out with anxiety over introducing his 13-year-old daughter to Facebook ("I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth"), continues through "we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud," and lauds various "internet makes us dumb" pundits as "digital Cassandras." Following an argument among the Twits is like listening to preschoolers quarreling: You did! Did not! Did too! Did not! Oh lordy. Don't let him find 4Chan. Have fun with it, commenters, if the paywall doesn't block you from reading it. "The Twitter Trap" (nytimes.com)...
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