“Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook”
Facebook Comments is basically Facebook writ small: while it’s maddeningly mediocre lowest-common-denominator crap, it’s not quite bad enough not to use.
But just take a moment, please, if you’d be so kind, to scroll down to the bottom of this page, consider the comments section, and reflect on the fact that what you are looking at is the very best product that a $75 billion software company, one famous for allegedly only hiring A-list talent, was able to build. If that doesn’t make you weep for the future just a little bit, then I don’t know what will.
Who cares about blog comments anymore, though? The short articles I read in my newsreader; the long ones I read in the Instapaper app for iPad. Can’t quite remember the last time I actually read comments on a blog because, even when I do open a blog in my browser, I make sure to close the tab before I get there.
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