I too get irrationally annoyed when writers fail to make the distinction. There was an episode of Reply All a while back where they analyzed the “emotions of the Internet” … using Twitter. Twitter literally exists to maximize negative emotions! In no way was it representative of the experience (unless you’re a tech writer).
The article should be titled ‘Why social media isn’t fun anymore’, because that’s all the author is talking about.
It’s equal to “the internet” for people who don’t work in IT. Super sad actually.
There are entire counties where Facebook is “the internet”.
Ah, we’re doing one of those full circle things. I actually remember the time when AOL was “the internet.”
I too get irrationally annoyed when writers fail to make the distinction. There was an episode of Reply All a while back where they analyzed the “emotions of the Internet” … using Twitter. Twitter literally exists to maximize negative emotions! In no way was it representative of the experience (unless you’re a tech writer).