Apps seemed to be the way everyone found each other these days.
Kinda accurate. Snapchat for example you can see people's location and its a service where you can interact with people around the world. Instagram and Facebook is also a platform to interact with others.
But then humans get a hold of it and reinflate it with meaning. We hear the Mario Brothers theme music, and it is like the smell of a warm summer day, musky little boys testing their reflexes against a mysteriously evil turtle and his minions.
Our generation just takes anything and makes it something. The author choice of describing Mario Brothers was good here as the music doesn't reflect what's happening in the game.
“‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
The connection the author is trying to use is wise. Google being the media is everywhere spreading like a pancake.
The Farm has found fault with almost every word.
The Farm represents outside people reading in and finding things in particular that might be wrong, offensive, or not knowledgable.
One particular bot has a tizzy anytime an article mentions egg salad sandwiches.
These bots are representing the future of checking what wouldn't effect the public. As said in this sentence this bot checks to makes sure egg salad sandwiches aren't mentioned. It's weird reading some of this to think maybe this could turn out to be our future.