Author: Michelle L. Dozois / Source: New York Times
New York Times readers leave thousands of comments on our site each day. Usually these comments don’t go viral.
But on rare occasions, they get shared widely, charming a wider portion of the internet beyond the digital walls of The Times.
On Thursday, two of our readers, Kathy Watson and her husband, Stu, of Hood River, Ore.
, joined that unofficial hall of fame.Stu, a retired newspaper editor and writer, left a comment on Mike Isaac’s story about how Mark Zuckerberg plans to change Facebook and other social platforms so that people have more private conversations with smaller groups:
Kathy, also a former journalist and a semiretired chef, had a different perspective:
A Times comment moderator spotted the exchange and highlighted both responses as “Times Picks,” making them more visible to other readers of the comments.
Then one of our technology columnists, Kevin Roose,
More than 10,000 people on Twitter liked or retweeted his tweet, and many others weighed in — either siding with Kathy or Stu, admitting that they could relate, or hypothesizing about…
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