MK

Vigorously participatory curatorial subcultures certainly exist, but in practice, they require too much time and energy to have a broad appeal. People enjoy sharing their discoveries with friends, and they may at least occasionally rate and review items. But most people, most of the time, leave the hard work of curation to others — or to

... people just aren’t meant to talk to one another this mu ch . They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either.

For one, social-media operators discovered that the more emotionally charged the content, the better it spread across its users’ networks.

The flip side of that coin also shines. On social media, everyone believes that anyone to whom they have access owes them an audience...

Character is gone, because eccentricity is harder to duplicate and sell in bulk.