[keithgibson]

A rather lazy piece, in my opinion. It doesn't deliver any new or critical analysis of Facebook or anything to do with it. Rather, it simply compiles previous articles written about the social network into a single, pessimistic piece. It's a lame literature review. edit:typo

[sc68cal]

Keller has a history of writing lazy and out-of-touch columns.

Salon put him at #11 on their Hack List. http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/11_bill_keller/

He’s got a bland style coupled with a smug voice, and absolutely no original thoughts on the major issues of the day. When Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren hired Keller to pen a front-of-the-book column, it was perhaps supposed to be full of banal lessons from his old days in the field, but it very quickly became “obtuse old man yells at cloud computing.”

Don't forget - he also was a supporter of the Iraq War and attempted to rationalize his support of it: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/us/sept-11-reckoning/kelle...