On: Is this the end of social networking?

[_dp9d]

> we basically don't have social media right now, we have advertising engines masquerading as social media

And that's been true of mainstream media for a long time also.

[dont__panic → _dp9d]

Have you ever read Neil Postman's Amusing ourselves to Death? It doesn't quite hone in on the advertising engine piece of this, but I think it hits the nail right on the head about mainstream media's longtime masquerade as "news."