All that's old is new again
brought a tear of nostalgia to my eye, it did.
modern social networking sites are like USENET in its days of decline, but with GUI and more bugs, on higher-end hardware.
as for the classical philosophers, good thing they had to write stuff down before they shared it. gave them time to edit it into something useful, unlike the insipid MST3K fragments we see here.
if {given a platform even an idiot can use}
and {most idiots can access}
then {too many idiots will abuse it, making the platform useful only to idiots}
else if {the platform includes methods to filter idiots}
or {the platform requires effort and intelligence to use}
then {the platform will be condemned as elitist - "sour grapes"}