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		lurkinggrue on April 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tumblr is ruining a generation I'm 42 and was using the Internet before that person was born as well. My generation was ruined by Pac-Man... or was it TV? I think he needs to look up Sturgeon's Law and realize there is always a large cross section of any generation that are not deep thinkers. Previously we just never had access to their scrap books full of kitten photos with quotes.

scrame on April 19, 2011 [–]

In the case of the article, its not even that, its reblogging. Though I don't see that as any different as the blog explosion 10 years ago.

If you want to look at ruining a generation, look at subcultures wrecked by crack, heroin and AIDS. Tumblr is pretty harmless.

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