Mossberg: Are brands really your friends?

Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.

For as long as I can remember, our family has used Tide laundry detergent. It gets the job done, and I buy it robotically every time we run out of detergent, never even casting a glance at All, Gain, or Wisk. My wife and I have spent a fortune on Tide, over the years, and we are satisfied with it.

But I would never like or follow Tide on Facebook or Twitter. It’s soap.

Tide is not a cousin, a colleague, a classmate, an old friend, or a business acquaintance. Few people would consider it a source of intriguing ideas or art, unlike...

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via The Verge

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