I think the basic point being made is valid. It might seem like splitting hairs to look closely at those three words, but the assumptions that Youssef argues lie behind them are (i would agree) borne out by the FB UX as a whole. I think the YoZuck blog has shown that he has thought hard about the issues. This opinion is not a case of over-reading, but something arrived at.
I don't know if I agree with you on this one. I think you're diving in too deeply on three words that really could mean almost anything. It's like the way people tear apart a line of poetry to make it mean something it may not actually be attempting to express. I would be careful not to make a mountain out of a molehill.
I don't believe I'm diving too deeply into these words at all. In fact, I'm not really talking about the words; my point is that they are a symptomatic of a larger problem, that is, Facebook does not seem to adequately understand emotion, love and friendship.
Well written. I think you hit the nail on the head with the fact that it should be an experience rather than us just consuming information. Consuming makes us sound like we're mindless zombies.
Furthermore, I think the point is not that Boz, by his choice of wording, "attempted to express" anything like the view Youssef gave; he did it without intending to! (Any decent reader knows not to trust an author to know themselves the significance of what they say!)
