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If every social network were brutally honest with you, they'd be Amazon Spark. 

The newest feature on the Amazon app is the grossest, purest thing on the internet. It is digital capitalism, incarnate. It's so naked in its purpose, it's almost hard to hate. It is the smarmiest stripe of conspicuous consumption. In the way that the "Alien" movies' Xenomorph is the perfect killing creature, so goes Amazon Spark: the perfect, unapologetic internet moneymaking creation. 

Spark launched Wednesday on the Amazon app, to not-a-particularly-great amount of fanfare. It's comprised of a feed (basically: an Instagram clone) that features people posting photos with their favorite products.  Read more...

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