How Facebook Has Flattened Human Communication

Online services demand easily classified content. Users have obliged.

David Auerbach
OneZero
Published in
9 min readAug 28, 2018

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“Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,
In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.” —Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1

“I feel so bad for the…

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David Auerbach
OneZero

Writer, software engineer, etc. BITWISE: A LIFE IN CODE now available from Pantheon. http://davidauerba.ch (Blog: http://waggish.org)