The rock and roll generation are running the country now.

You misspelled 'ruining.'

The problem is, the generalizations you just made are essentially 70's comic-bookstore-guy stereotypes.

So basically you're saying you were raised in a Company Town and everybody around you better frickin' pay their dues to the Company Store. Or Else.

When the marketing slime move in (that's basically what 'social networking' is) it sucks all the oxygen up. They employ a lot of really talented people in selling shit instead of creating useful things.

I notice a lot of really 'intelligent' people have jumped into this thread to defend Facebook and 'social networking.' It's really sad that they've invested their lot into marketing culture. At the end of the day, being a fucking salesman is an empty existence.

So you are making the claim that people only posting updates or sending email when they have something actually relevant to say is hyperbole? What's your point, anyway?

The alternative to 'this email thing' is not picking up the phone or writing a letter. It's fucking doing stuff in the real world.

Also, only adolescents, and people immersed in the 'permanent adolescence culture' get all worked up about 'becoming like your parents.' It's a thing called growing up.

Remaining an immature twerp for your entire life isn't a viable alternative to growing up. Unless you're Dick Clark, I suppose (and even he got to die, eventually). Don't retard your development into adulthood in the name of a stupid meme pop culture embraces.

What the heck is 'immersive amount of good'? Have you been hanging around people who use 'friend' as a verb too much lately?

Completely disassociated from any technology? The >> means the technology known as the motor rotates to roll the technology known as the tape forward, etc.

Much as it probably is hard for people to acknowledge, Apple doesn't hire the best and brightest. Historically, like Microsoft, they have bought in most of their 'innovation.'

They spent many many millions of dollars trying to produce the 'next generation Mac OS (tagilent, pink, whatever including the one they called sagan until Carl Sagan sued them then they changed it to BHA (buttheaded astronomer..))

Then they gave up because their staff apparently was only producing botique crap and was much more interested in justifying one-button mice than writing good code.

So they bought NeXT and wrote a pretty layer on top of NeXTStep to use as their 'new' OS.

That was never the case, ever.

It was never the case if you were one of the white-coat data thugs who ran IT before Microsoft with their 'a PC on every desk' revolution happened.

Yes, other companies made Personal Computers before the IBM PC, and people were already liberated from the Mainframe Thugs to a degree, but the PC-Clones running Microsoft operating systems broke open the data monopoly in ways that made those smug assholes behind the half door who could take their time producing your print-out weep.

If you don't understand any of this, you are too young to understand it. Oh well.