“Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth.”
NYT executive editor Bill Keller, who says “I don’t think I’m a Luddite,” is worried about “The Twitter Trap.” Though, to keep Keller’s metaphor rolling, he’s hitting that pipe pretty hard himself.