Although I kind of agree with the conclusion (Tumblr is far cooler at this point), and I kind of like the now-that-it’s-gone-public-it’s-lame rationale, I completely disagree with some of its premises.
- “The generation which en masse hasn’t created anything worth noting except for debts on their parents credits cards. Anything, but Facebook.” This statement is two-fold ignorant. On the one hand, it pretends that Facebook isn’t a bit of a revolutionary creation that helped alter the way we use the Internet—pushing it from the searchable web to the social web. And on the other, could you please tell me what generation actually achieved anything substantial en masse when its prime constituents were in their twenties? (And, ya know, Facebook itself is somewhat substantial, see above, which means the millennials are kinda kicking Gen X to the curb on this point.) By the author’s own globalizing-based-solely-on-pop-culture-references logic, all Gen X ever did in their twenties was smoke pot and sing about conjunction junction.
- The article is riddled with instances of out-of-touch-ness (e.g., thinking that the only appropriate thing to wear to work is a suit and tie, referring to the “like” button as the “‘I like’ button,” and if I want to really be nitpicky, calling millennials “Gen Y’ers”). I dunno, it’s just weird to have someone so obviously not “with it,” so not “cool” trying to weigh in on a topic on which he is clearly not an expert. (Editorial Note: I openly own up to my not-cool-ness, which is why I normally don’t try to make statements on what is and isn’t cool and why I find it so odd when people who are more or less in my position cool-wise for some reason do.)
