The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com nytimes.com · Originally posted on Pinboard

Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way.

Via blech.