Like Eternal September

“Facebook became uncool when it opened up the site to people who weren’t in your same college.” – jshintaku

While I dislike Facebook, I find the possibility that, it’s popular because it once was cool, very amusing.

“Eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993. The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.”

P.S. Get off my lawn.

Two Prices

“This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor.” – Paul Ford, New York Magazine

Elsewhere:
A brilliant comic from Jen Sorensen:

(thanks for the pointer Darrin).