counts infinitely

I think the biggest loss for me personally, which no one really has talked much about, is the fact that there were people in my life who used Google Reader who refuse to use anything else — no Twitter, no Facebook. One such friend titled himself a “conscientious non-adopter.”

And now that they’re not using Google Reader, I don’t think they’ll replace it with Google Plus, because it’s just not (to steal a phrase from the comments on the linked post) content-centric enough. They’ll just wait until something else comes along that does the job as well as Google Reader did — which I very much doubt they will, because almost no other service will have the built-in network that Google does. Some of us want the network, just not as it manifests in the social network use case.

The going away of those voices makes me saddest of all, because some of them were the smartest people I know.

pearwaldorf:

I HATE IT SO MUCH AUGH.