Are Facebook and Twitter users really different tribes? There may be more cross pollination between the two social media giants than you think. Twitter, Michael Roston argues, is where we first learn about the news, while Facebook is where we go to digest it. [Medium]
If the Apple Watch succeeds, it won’t be because it’s a better watch. It will succeed if it can create a new way for its users to be rude, exclusionary arseholes. [The Awl]
Five years ago, a short lived “immortality” service offered its customers a way to create a digital doppleganger of themselves that would live on after they died. It was an interesting idea, but, as its users quickly learned, immortality can’t be guaranteed if you’re depending on a company that may go out of business. [Fusion]