The trouble with that analogy is that water and electricity (just about) are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives; a specific social media site isn't. Facebook needs to appeal to the trend to keep in business. Hugely popular social networking sites have failed in the past, precisely when they've fallen out if fashion.
There are a few similar slip-ups in the article; the author is presumably not a native English speaker. However, despite that - and what really motivated me to comment - I find this really well written, and the odd mistake just adds a bit of character. Very impressed.
And many of us object to that male default. About the first thing I learnt at any serious level of linguistics teaching is that language does not stand still, it evolves. It would be trivial to say "did they say they were in the bay area" in this instance.
Of course, this is how our browsers used to work before the makers decided to remove or hide that feature. I've never seen it on a mobile device. Does anyone understand the reasons behind that move? Even if you think page zoom is 'better' than text scale, surely it doesn't make sense to disable the latter altogether?
It's easy to toss out statements like "monitor your network traffic"; do you have any good suggestions for how an average developer with relatively little understanding of networking can go about doing so?
To say "b has n more views than a", you need two operations whether you use signed or unsigned ints. Signed let's you say "these two videos have n different views" but, to be honest, it seems unlikely that you be doing either in so many places in your codebase, or so frequently during execution, to make the extra operation that significant.
Yes, pretty poor usability to link two words only separated by a space, but terrible usability to extend that to linking two adjacent characters separately.
If IE didn't barf on a trailing comma after the last value, we wouldn't have this problem. That's probably the biggest source of all my IE JavaScript bugs. To be fair, I'm not actually sure what the spec says, but the spec might be wrong :-)