via NYT > Opinion on 7/21/08
One effect of so much social networking is that the language of actual human interaction begins to feel degraded. "…I get wind of a new site, pay it a visit and discover that it already has a population four times the size of some midsized countries — everyone speaking the local dialect, taboos and kinship patterns well worked out, a robust economy and brisk trading with other social-networking sites…"
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