Path Is Overdoing It

Buzz Andersen made me aware of the cloyingly sweet prose that Path employs on its blog to introduce new features:

Path 2.0.5: Introducing Depth

To each new moment, each relationship, each challenge and beginning, you bring a painter’s palette of experience. It’s dotted and smeared with every song you’ve heard, every landscape you’ve discovered and every person you’ve loved. Your moments on Path are only tiny snapshots in the enormous landscape of your life, but each fills out the picture and makes your Path something deeper, richer and more authentically you.

Gack.

As Andersen says, 

its a great example of the sort of over-the-top, emo self seriousness that is rapidly becoming a cloying hallmark of Apple-inspired, design-obsessed San Francisco startups

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Notes

  1. missbhavens reblogged this from slavin and added:
    …and I’ll add that I don’t want the words “dotted” and “smeared” used in reference to any online social experience. I...
  2. slavin reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    I’ll add to this only to say that “Depth” isn’t something you “introduce.”
  3. complexitea reblogged this from stoweboyd
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