I Still Don't Get It

Google + to provide the web's "social backbone."

Someone is going to have to explain this bullshit to me:

Google+ is the rapidly growing seed of a web-wide social backbone, and the catalyst for the ultimate uniting of the social graph. All it will take on Google's part is a step of openness to bring about such a commoditization of the social layer.

I'm not sure I understand anything the guy is saying in the above paragraph. In his conclusion:

Computers ought to serve us and provide us with means of expression.

Really? Here all this time I thought they were a porn portal, a way to pay bills, and a thing that you can hook up to a printer to print stuff.