I'm not criticizing the fact that you wrote this, I am criticizing Harvard for trying to push this.

This makes no sense. Choosing between alternatives is exactly what forces us to consider ethics and morality.

Doesn't that strike you as sort of circular? You require social media to analyze data, so that you can basically help people navigate social media!

This is really a commentary on the crappy minefield that higher education has become. It's a profit-generating machine that chews up young people and spits them out indebted for life.

I'm willing to overlook the weird anachronisms. Engineering solutions had not yet been found for problems concerning battery life (NiCad and its 'memory' problems were a plague), inexpensive LCD production, e-paper (even in terms of the display available on the Kindle), and flash storage.

Good sarcasm does. ;-)

I don't think you quite get it, but that's okay. Let me use different words.

Besides, at least offering up an opinion with substance is better than sitting back and pointing out how someone else is surfing gawker and posting. What have you done lately?

First off, I don't do it for "recommends". Secondly, don't read it if you don't want to. And lastly, what's wrong with being cynical and viewing the world as it is? Pointless optimism is exactly that, pointless. It certainly hasn't served the millennials to be optimistic or "embrace your differences".

The moment:

It can be whatever you wish it to be. Personally, I advocate for the obliteration of social media. We got along just fine without it, and it is highly questionable whether it has done anything to improve our lives. Several studies have shown, in fact, that social media makes us more depressed.

Fair enough. Here in the city, car thieves aren't as capable at rowing their own. Still, hope they catch these bastids. The girl loves old cars! We need more of that.

You forgot the dreaded 'Deck of Many Things'.

"This one runs..."

Actually, no. I've never been bitten by a tick.

Good to know it breaks down quickly, and that it isn't quite as deadly under normal commercial concentrations. Thank you for allaying some of my fears on this.

Granted, it isn't entirely useless, but it only takes one tick bite. I wear DEET when I mow the lawn, and I am terrified of getting a tick bite (deer run through my yard regularly).

There's some critical information than needs to be driven home:

I used to live out near West Palm Beach. Agreed. Still, you'd think Orlando and Miami would be a little more expensive. Espceially Miami, which has a bustling year-round local population.