For Lanier, with all of his musings on the present-day homogenizing of young people's social lives through Twitter and Facebook (and I agree with him, for he's so obviously correct about that), seems to desperately want to be an optimist in a world where -- if you accept any, most, or all of his premises -- there is no reason to be such.
One employee complained that his boss ordered him to make a memo read, "for John and I, " rather than the correct usage, "for John and me, " Ms. O'Conner says.