Re/code kills comments: I have something to say<article>
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Earlier this week, Re/code’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher announced that the site was
doing away with comments—the idea being that social media is now so prevalent that those who wish to air their views can contact writers and editors via Twitter and Facebook.</p><p>
I’m not entirely sold on their reasoning, as I would hardly welcome being splattered with reader comments in a Twitter stream that I largely use for my personal pleasure, nor do I believe that 140 characters is enough to express complex ideas. And while Facebook is an option, I believe there’s some value in comments appended directly to the article they address rather than abstracted on a Facebook page that others may never read.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2850379/re-code-kills-comments-i-have-something-to-say.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Re/code kills comments: I have something to say
