Some thoughts on Instagram

Facebook bought Instagram for some unholy sum. And now Facebook can sell our data in picture form. This is an achievement that I am to welcome with tears of gratitude streaming down my cheeks as I chant hosannas to Mark Zuckerberg, apparently. Meanwhile, the world will not be made a jot better by this. All it will do is confer ludicrous sums of money on a few people who can now buy Rolexes instead of Timexes. But that is what the future is all about, isn't it? Get your pile, to hell with everything else, if it doesn't make you hallucinate dollar signs it's not worth a damn. To think that we went from planning moonbases to this meaningless nonsense! Is this what the future is to be from now on? It's the Gilded Age all over again but with nerds buying websites instead of enormous men with enormous mustaches buying railroads. At least robber barons buying railroads conferred some benefits to the world as a whole, in the form of expanded and improved transportation. Somehow I doubt Instagram becoming a subsidiary of Facebook will open up any new horizons. Unless slantendicular pictures that look like they were taken with a potato and new opportunities to spread same like some asinine plague counts as a new horizon.  And yet, as much as I want to reject this nonsense, I have no choice but to engage with it. Am I not writing a blog, knowing that it is just about the only means of reaching a large audience? Are blogs not another symptom of the disease that is the 21st century? What a century! I was expecting flying cars and commercial space travel. I got Facebook and Twitter. But, who cares about that? Facebook and Twitter is what the masses want, space travel and science and stuff is like fr nurds an ppl wu aint got swagg. And it's more profitable than a worthwhile future, so our moneyed masters will keep this crap going forever, he said posting on his google blog, fully aware that he is cursing the beast that ate him from inside it's belly.